Articles for tag: Ancient Predators, Extinct Sharks, Fossil Discoveries, Helicoprion

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Helicoprion: The 270-Million-Year-Old Shark With a Buzz Saw for a Jaw

Suhail Ahmed

For more than a century, a single spiral of teeth has taunted paleontologists with a maddening question: where in the world did it go in the mouth? The animal behind that riddle – Helicoprion – swam Earth’s seas long before dinosaurs, yet its legacy feels strangely modern, like a design brief left on a lab ...

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What Did Megalodon Really Eat? Its Real Prey Will Surprise You

Jan Otte

For decades, the megalodon, a terrible shark that ate only whales has been portrayed as the ultimate oceanic horror, its enormous jaws able to crush a car with a single bite. But shockingly more surprising new studies show Otodus megalodon was not the picky whale specialist we thought of. Rather, it was an opportunistic apex ...