Examine tide pools, pull seine net, measure salinity, observe animal adaptations, find
fossil shark teeth, and much more.
The site is now kept quiet from all but scientists — poachers have already trawled nearby areas, on the prowl for
fossil shark teeth.
Not exact matches
Within the
fossils, there were loads of juvenile
shark teeth.
The holes seemed to have been made with
shark teeth, a number of which were found with the
fossils.
Along with his famous Java Man
fossils, 19th - century anatomist Eugène Dubois collected shells with small holes that appeared to be made by
shark teeth at the site.
The
fossil sharks had tiny
teeth very similar to a modern - day, plankton - eating megamouth
shark.
The team analyzed 30
fossil sand tiger
shark teeth exhumed from Banks Island and 19 modern sand tiger
shark teeth from specimens caught in Delaware Bay bordered by Delaware and New Jersey.
Sharks belong to a more basal group of vertebrates and their scales have been observed in the
fossil record over the course of 450 million years of evolution, so the Sheffield researchers believe this indicates that all vertebrates, whether they live on land or in the sea, share the same developmental programme for skin,
teeth and hair that has remained relatively unchanged throughout vertebrate evolution.
They described their
shark fossils October 29, complete with lots of
tooth photos, in Nature Communications.
Other features of the 2.6 - foot - long
shark fossil included a wide mouth, splayed - out gills and various kinds of
teeth, reported Live Science.
Ms. Johnson, who teaches in Booneville, learned that the site contained
shark teeth and other
fossils from the late Cretaceous period about 100 million years ago.