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100-year-old box of teeth leads to discovery of fossil shark species courthousenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from courthousenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Scientists discovered 17 fossilized teeth at a Geological Survey in Alabama. The fossils revealed a new species of shark that lived an estimated 65 billion years ago.
"This time period is understudied, which makes the discovery of this new shark species that much more significant," said T. Lynn Harrell Jr., a paleontologist and fossil collections curator at the Geological Survey of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.