Teeth and Jaw of an Ancient Shark

A close-up image of a fossil shark jaw with teeth.
(Jeff Gage/Florida Museum of Natural History)

This well-preserved fossil is the only intact partial skull ever found of a white shark that lived about 6.5 million years ago called Carcharodon hubbelli. The fossil jaw contains 222 teeth, some in rows up to six teeth deep, and may provide evidence that modern day great white sharks evolved from the ancestors of mako sharks, not the megalodon.

Tags: Paleobiology