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Fossil bone bed helps reconstruct life along California's ancient coastline

Fossil bone bed helps reconstruct life along California's ancient coastline

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In the famed Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed near Bakersfield, Calif., shark teeth as big as a hand and weighing a pound each, intermixed with copious bones from extinct seals and whales, seem to tell of a 15-million-year-old ...





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Taking the bite out of shark DNA

Taking the bite out of shark DNA

Biology /

created Aug 18, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Extracting shark DNA has been somewhat of a challenge in the past, with scientists having to overcome the obvious hurdles associated with carrying out biopsies on live and rather uncooperative ...


Boy finds giant shark tooth

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created Mar 11, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A 9-year-old Florida boy found a 5-inch-long fossil of an ancient shark tooth buried in the sand on an Egmont Key beach.


Plesiosaur a victim of shark attack

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created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An 85 million-year-old plesiosaur fossil has been found with over 80 shark's teeth, suggesting the animal was the victim of sharks in a feeding frenzy. The find is perhaps the most spectacular example of ...


Preserved shark fossil adds evidence to great white's origins

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created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A new University of Florida study could help resolve a long-standing debate in shark paleontology: From which line of species did the modern great white shark evolve?


New forensic technique gives clues about sharks from bite damage

Biology / Other

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hit-and-run attacks by sharks can be solved with a new technique that identifies the culprits by the unique chomp they put on their victims, according to a University of Florida researcher and shark expert.


Negligible impact on public safety from shark cage diving operations

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study by five university researchers -- including four from the University of Hawaii at Manoa -- concludes that existing shark cage diving enterprises in Hawai'i have a negligible effect on public safety.


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Greenland shark may become new source of biofuel

Technology / Energy

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The Greenland shark, one of the largest species of sharks, is a nuisance to fishermen and its meat is toxic to humans, but researchers now hope the flesh can be used to create a biofuel for Inuits.


Could stressed out sharks save more fish?

Could stressed out sharks save more fish? (w/ Video)

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Marine biology graduate student Austin Gallagher has studied the dwindling shark population around the world—from the waters of the South Pacific to those off Southern California.


New meat-eating dinosaur duo from Sahara ate like hyenas, sharks

New meat-eating dinosaur duo from Sahara ate like hyenas, sharks

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 14, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (20) | comments 0

Two new 110 million-year-old dinosaurs unearthed in the Sahara Desert highlight the unusual meat-eaters that prowled southern continents during the Cretaceous Period. Named Kryptops and Eocarcharia in a paper ...


A misplaced dinosaur tooth may have been cannibalism

A misplaced dinosaur tooth may have been cannibalism

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created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- You don't have to be a paleontologist to suppose that way back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth chances were good meat eaters would dined on one of their own. Short of a time-machine trip back ...



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