Others are curved and can be used to hook prey, such as those of hooktooth sharks. Some sharks have teeth that are flat and very strong. They are typically found in species that live at the bottom of ...

AN INCREDIBLE nine million year old ancestor of the great white shark has been discovered in Peru. The 23ft long beast had huge flesh-tearing teeth that ripped through its prey and could grow up ...

The university museum’s collection from Rio do Meio includes teeth from at least eight different species—and shark teeth are a treasure chest of information. In a recent paper, Burg Mayer and ...

This shark is believed to have been an ancestor of the famed great white. The fossil has shown that its teeth spanned up to an astonishing 8.9cm in length. For comparison, the great white shark ...

Fossil teeth from sharks in the genus Ptychodus have made ... although the broad, flat shape of the teeth suggests they were suited to crushing hard-shelled prey. Now, Romain Vullo at the ...