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Sharklike Fish With Weird, Buzz-Saw Jaws Sliced Through the Seas, Then Vanished. Now, Paleontologists Are Unraveling Their Secrets

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...
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Imagine megalodon sharks never going extinct and oceans terrorized

Would you ever venture into the ocean if you knew this creature could be lurking beneath you? It's twice the size of a T. rex, its jaws are big enough to crush cars, and it can swallow multiple humans ...

Meet The Shark Bigger Than A School Bus — A Biologist Explains Why It Vanished From The Oceans

The ocean’s ultimate predator once hunted whales with ease. Here’s why the world’s biggest shark eventually vanished off the ...

Ancient mega-shark ruled Australian seas 15 million years before megalodon

In the age of dinosaurs—before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon—a monstrous shark prowled the waters off ...
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Before megalodon, researchers say a monstrous shark ruled ancient Australian seas

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what’s now northern Australia, among the sea ...
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Researchers discover monster mega-predator shark that ruled the ocean before the megalodon

A monstrous shark, predating whales, great whites, or even the bus-sized megalodon, once prowled the waters off what is now northern Australia during the Cretaceous period. Researchers, studying huge ...