Great white shark's teeth link it to a humble, flat-bodied ancestor

The now-extinct megalodon was the largest predatory shark to ever live, while the great white is currently the largest of the predatory sharks. It now turns out that both fish likely descended from a small, flat shark that skulked along the seabed.

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Category: Biology

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• Fossils
• Sharks
• Teeth
• University of Vienna

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