Quick Take New vertebrate fossils reveal a more ancient mega-shark years before Megalodon This mega-shark was found in Australia The finding rewrites the historical timeline of shark evolution Long ...

A monstrous shark, predating whales, great whites, or even the bus-sized megalodon, once prowled the waters off what is now northern Australia during the Cretaceous period. Researchers, studying huge ...

Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back to further in the Cretaceous period than was previously known.