An international team of scientists has discovered a new lineage of extinct plankton - feeding sharks, Pseudomegachasma, that lived in warm
oceans during the age of the dinosaurs nearly 100 million years ago.
Not exact matches
Pliosaurs are a special kind
of plesiosaur that are characterized by a large, 2m long skull, enormous teeth and extremely powerful jaws, making them the top predators
of oceans during the «
Age of Dinosaurs».
«Arctic Oil & Gas cites recent scientific evidence that huge, floating mats
of azolla - a prehistoric fern believed to have covered much
of the Arctic
Ocean during a planetary hothouse era about 55 million years ago - decomposed soon after the
age of the
dinosaurs and exist today as «vast hydrocarbon resources» trapped in layers
of rock below the polar ice cap.»