Sahara Desert Whale Bones and Shark Teeth
This is a whale carcass—a plesiosaur fossil from the Sahara Desert, and this place was the seabed of a distant time, but not particularly deep.
This is a shark tooth—as a cartilaginous fish, sharks are difficult to preserve complete skeletons, except in extremely rare cases, such as Florida, which was recently submerged by seawater.
Often, shark teeth are just lonely fossils in rock, pitifully.
This is whale meets shark tooth—at some point in the history of evolution, the Megalodon also preyed on whales. As a cartilaginous fish, sharks tore at the hard shells of marine mammals, surely breaking off countless teeth.
As for this… turtle died and sank, what is it called?
Was this article helpful?
