Godzilla Shark found in New Mexico mountains gets an official name krdo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from krdo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Godzilla Shark found in New Mexico mountains gets an official name Share Updated: 1:45 PM MDT Apr 22, 2021 Share Updated: 1:45 PM MDT Apr 22, 2021
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The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox. Share Updated: 1:45 PM MDT Apr 22, 2021 When you think of New Mexico wildlife, sharks aren’t typically where the mind wanders. But that’s exactly what one graduate found in the Manzano Mountains in 2013.Well, not an actual shark, but remnants of one. “I was just sitting in a shady spot using a pocket knife to split and shift through the shaley limestones, not finding much except fragments of plants and a few fish scales, when suddenly I hit something that was a bit denser,” John-Paul Hodnett said. At the time Hodnett was a graduate student visiting the area with a group of scientists.According to a news release the group was about to leave when Hodnett came across what he would later learn w
The monster shark was named Dracopristis hoffmanorum and nicknamed Hoffman’s Dragon Shark in honor of the New Mexico family that owns the area of the Manzano Mountains where many fossils were recovered.
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The giant fish once dubbed Godzilla Shark finally gets a name msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.