Following the extinction of the dinosaurs, this shark emerged as one of the top predators of the ocean. A team of scientists recently announced the discovery of a new fossil shark species from Alabama, USA. The team was led by Jun Ebersole, Director of Collections, McWane Science Center, Birmingham
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"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.
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