New lineage of prehistoric, plankton-eating sharks discovered
Monday, September 21, 2015 - 13:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A new lineage of extinct plankton-feeding sharks, Pseudomegachasma, has been discovered by an international team of scientists. The sharks lived in warm oceans during the age of the dinosaurs nearly 100 million years ago. The fossil sharks had tiny teeth very similar to a modern-day, plankton-eating megamouth shark.