Great white sharks had humble beginnings

Friday, March 13, 2009 - 13:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A well-preserved fossil of a four- to five-million-year-old great white shark species, complete with 222 sharp teeth, suggests the ocean giants were once even bigger, and that they evolved from the fish-eating relatives of today's mako sharks.

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