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Fossil of ‘long-winged’ shark from Cretaceous period found in Mexican quarry – ABC News
This is not your typical sleek, streamlined, torpedo-like fish. This ancient shark had extraordinarily large fins, making it wider than it was long.
Think “shark” and you might picture a sleek, streamlined, torpedo-like fish. But a fossil shark unearthed in Mexico was wider than it was long, thanks to extraordinarily long fins.
Key points:
- A shark fossil, discovered in a Mexican quarry, had extremely long fins for its size
- Palaeontologists claimed it belonged to a family of sharks that lived between 66 million and 93 million years ago
- Based on the skeleton, the fish appeared to swim relatively slowly and feed on plankton from seawater filtered…
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