Fossil Shark 1

This artist’s rendering shows how an extinct white shark species, the subject of a new University of Florida study, may have looked. The study in the March 12, 2009, issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, based on a well-preserved 4- to 5-million-year-old fossil, concludes modern white sharks descended from mako sharks and not from megatooth sharks as originally believed.

(Art by Jason Bourque, Florida Museum of Natural History)
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