But hundreds of millions of years ago, before the dawn of the dinosaurs, there lived a shark with a bite unlike any other: Edestus, the scissor shark. Paleontologists have known about Edestus for ...

Jesse Pruitt and Evelyn Vollmer, Idaho Virtualization Lab Imagine a great white shark with a set of sawtoothed scissors for a mouth. Ridiculous as that image might seem at first, such a creature o ...

The fossil is 23 centimetres long from its snout to upper trunk, and includes a battery of scissor-like teeth preserved in the upper and lower jaw. In the world of shark fossils, this was a major ...