Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back ...

After examining the fossils, scientists think the huge prehistoric predator would have measured up to eight metres in length and weighed significantly more than today's great white sharks.

Quick Take New vertebrate fossils reveal a more ancient mega-shark years before Megalodon This mega-shark was found in ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a colossal shark that lived off northern Australia about 115 million years ago, revealing that modern shark lineages grew to immense sizes far earlier than ...

This discovery highlights the enormous size and predatory dominance of ancient sharks and provides scientists with a new perspective on the early evolution of the ancestors of today's great white ...

What makes this discovery particularly intriguing is that the Darwin lamniform fossils predate all previously known Cardabiodontids by 15 million years. This suggests that the evolutionary ...

A gigantic 8 m long mega-predatory shark stalks an unwary long-necked plesiosaur in the seas off Australia 115 million years ago. Around 115 million years ago, the seas off northern Australia were ...