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Before Giant Plankton-Feeding Sharks, there were Giant Plankton-Feeding Sharks.

Douglas Long September 11, 2015 basking shark Cretaceous evolution filter-feeding fossil manta ray megamouth shark Paleontology plankton Pseudomegachasma sandtiger shark shark teeth whale shark

In the fossil history of sharks, a unique evolutionary experiment happened much earlier than anyone thought. The largest fishes in the oceans feed on some…

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Monsters of the Ancient Seas

Kevin Zelnio July 4, 2010 Dolichorhynchops Hesperornis National Geographic Paleontology Styxosaur video

This looks pretty cool! More under the fold!

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Trilobites Ride the Crazy Train

Kevin Zelnio May 21, 2009 Aggregation fossil Geology Gregarious Paleontology Portugal Sex Week Trilobite

A new paper published recently in the journal Geology reports on peculiar conga party lines of our paleo-friend, the Trilobite. Gutierrez-Marco and colleagues discovered a…

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