And, as the research team explain in their paper, which was recently published in the Journal of Palaeontology, it concerns ...

At the forefront of hit movies like “Jaws,” “47 Meters Down” and “Sharknado,” sharks are often represented as fearsome, dangerous creatures — despite posing a statistically low risk to humans.

Students learn about the different types of shark teeth and what they look like. Department of Education, University of Florida , CC BY-ND Shark AI students analyze various types of shark teeth.

This “chipmunk shark” packed quite a punch with its strange set of teeth ... for these types of discoveries, Toomey said. “We’ve ended up finding at least 70 different kinds of shark ...