It s a blend between a manta Ray and shark chimera.
Researchers have identified a new species of shark with wings that roamed the Gulf of Mexico in the Cretaceous period.
Oscar Sanisidro, a paleontologist at the University of Alcala in Madrid, Spain, is the illustrator who drew the new species: Aquilolamna milarcae.
Finding a fossil shark with remains of these soft tissues, not only the mandible but the rest of the body as in this case, is really, really rare,” Sanisidro said. “It’s super, super rare. And finding a shark as strange and weird in shape as this one is even more.”
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