AFRICA: Paleontologists literally stumbled upon fossils just outside Fort Worth that were vertebrae of a monster shark that trolled the shallow seas that covered Texas a hundred millennia ago.
A group of college students was searching for fossils in 2009 during a paleontology trip to the Duck Creek Formation, hoping to bring home some pieces to display.
Walking along a section of the formation with exposed limestone, Joseph Frederickson’s wife, Janessa Doucette-Frederickson, tripped over a boulder and noticed a fossil.
“We dig it out and realize it was a unique fossil,” Joseph Frederickson told the Star-Telegram. “None of us had seen anything of this size before — we ended up digging up three total fossils.”
The fossils are vertebrae that belonged to a shark at least 20 feet long, dating from 100 to 105 million years ago. In comparison, present-day great white sharks average 15 feet long.
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