Mysterious deep-sea shark that's older than the dinosaurs captured on film

FoxNews.com/science ^ | July 9, 2019 | Chris Ciaccia | Fox News

[Vendome]

Would have been nice if you included a picture of the specimen...

[Vendome]

There is a gap in your tooth less story but, do keep me a breast if you find further evidence...

[Vendome]

That’s what she said!

[knarf]

Them some fine lookin’ teeth.

[ExTxMarine]

This is one of those trick photos, where if you stare it long enough, a shark tooth comes into view!

[NativeSon]

That shark doesn’t look a day over 10 million.

[Vaduz]

Emma biggins finds shark tooth.

[Paul R.]

I suppose a fish that goes back “nearly 200 million years” is fairly impressive, in a sense, but, then again, I can drive a few miles and catch (from strong populations) fish that go back over 150 million years: Gar. More rarely, bowfins. Both inhabit MANY waterbodies. These sharks are a lot rarer, apparently... Do they taste better? :-)

[Agatsu77]

Send the poor frail thing over to my place. After I get a look at the tooth I’ll help her across the street or something.

[fightin kentuckian]

“Anyway, she was so nice that she brought it over and we spent the entire night talking about prehistoric sharks and their evolutionary histories. I took the following photo of her with the tooth first thing in the morning. Poor woman is so frail she could barely lift the thing.”

Bless her heart! That was nice of you to keep her company, I’m sure she doesn’t get many visitors.

[moovova]

Stop exploiting that tooth!

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[Reily]

Tooth? What tooth?

[ETL]

I suppose a fish that goes back “nearly 200 million years” is fairly impressive, in a sense

In a sense. fairly impressive?? We're talking 200 HUNDRED THOUSAND TIMES A THOUSAND, years!

In any case, the article is wrong in that this shark species appeared before the dinosaurs, as dinosaurs first appeared somewhere around 225-235 million years ago.

[ETL]

Re: We’re talking 200 HUNDRED THOUSAND TIMES A THOUSAND, years!

*TWO* HUNDRED THOUSAND...! :)

[newfreep]

You’ll need a bigger boat for those!

[Don W]

They have found moose, elk and caribou in the guts of Greenland sharks caught deep, so surface behaviour may not be as uncommon as thought.

[Paul R.]

Right. And you are correct about the sharks’ vs. dinos’ timeline.

But I’m still almost equally impressed that I can drive to any number of area waterbodies and catch fish that go back 150 million years, and they (esp. the longnose gar) practically overrun certain of these lakes. We’d eat ‘em (gar - not bad at all if prepared correctly), but, to clean ‘em practically requires aviation snips (GOOD ones), strong hands, determination, and maybe a saber saw...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fieldmarshaldj.

Note: this topic is from 7/08/2019 by ETL.

[colorado tanker]

Nice specimen!