The average modern shark tooth is usually between about 1.3-5 centimetres ... which has teeth that are wide and flat like mako shark teeth but that are also slightly serrated like the teeth of great ...

told McClatchy News that the agency is using its research to discredit “the general idea that all sharks are monsters.” “I know he (the mako) is a little scary with his teeth and all that ...

This is a photograph of shortfin mako shark scales which each measure ... Scales are translucent denticles, and feel like tiny loose teeth covering the whole shark. These scales with greatest ...

Megalodons might have been longer and thinner than previously thought, according to a new study. The enormous, extinct sharks ...

Rather than a great white, the team offered sleeker mako sharks for a frame of reference ... and likely measured as large as a modern adult great white. “It is entirely possible that megalodon ...

Once the shark was landed, Grey marveled at its build—streamlined, muscular, with a head like a bullet. “I had never seen its like,” he wrote. “Every line of this mako showed speed and ...

Fossil teeth show that the asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous killed off many of the largest species of shark. Only the smallest and deep-water species that fed primarily on fish survived.

“Megalodon was quite a bit warmer than both of these modern apex predators [the great white and mako sharks], which makes ... in the megalodon’s fossil teeth called apatite.