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February 18, 2019 by J. Scott Butherus

Great whites may have beat out megalodon in battle for survival

According to new research published in the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences, megalodon sharks likely went extinct at least one million years earlier than previously thought and direct competition with great whites might be to blame. A team of researchers led by vertebrate paleontologist Robert Boessenecker from the College of Charleston-South Carolina, analyzed fossil occurrence of […]

Filed Under: Biology, News Tagged With: fossil, Great white, megalodon

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