Teeny Teeth Indicate Ancient Shark Nurseries
Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 14:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Scientists have suggested that some ancient sharks bred in the shallows of freshwater lakes, forming nurseries for their hatchlings. Reporting in the most recent issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, a team of German paleontologists support this claim with spectacular 230 million-year-old fossil egg capsules and tiny teeth from Kyrgyzstan.