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January 26, 2018 by J. Scott Butherus

New species of prehistoric, plankton-eating shark discovered

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. The fossil sharks had tiny teeth very similar to a modern-day, plankton-eating megamouth shark. The study, “A new clade of putative plankton-feeding sharks from […]

Filed Under: Biology, Science Tagged With: megachasma

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