15 million year old shark found

2014-11-10 9:12 AM
ديانا الحموري
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15 million year old shark found

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">ArabiaWeather.com- Donald Gibson found a 15-million-year-old, three-meter-long shark <strong>fossil</strong> while building an extension to his home.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The Department of the Maritime Museum in the US state of Maryland said that the fossil includes more than 50 vertebrae, a skull and jaws full of teeth, which is the first to be found so far.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> As soon as Gibson found the fossil, he contacted Dr. Stephen Godfrey, curator of the excavations department at the museum, who in turn confirmed that this discovery was of an archaeological shark.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> He also noted that the jaws and teeth were in good condition approximately 15 million years after the fish was on the ocean floor.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Related topics:</strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/أسماك-القرش-تهاجم-الرجال-أكثر-من-النساء"><strong>Sharks attack men more than women!</strong></a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/لحظة-إنفجار-حوض-لاسماك-القرش-في-مركز-تجاري-بالصين"><strong>The moment a shark tank explodes in a shopping mall in China</strong></a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/سمكة-ضخمة-تلتهم-قرشاً-من-صيادين-طوله-متر-ونصف"><strong>A huge fish devours a one and a half meter long &quot;shark&quot; from the hands of fishermen!</strong></a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>

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