The largest shark structure has been discovered, which is 150 million years old
Paleontologists have discovered an incredible fossil of an 8-foot-long "shark" (about 2.44 meters) that roamed the Earth's oceans some 150 million years ago, in Germany.
According to the British newspaper the Daily Mail, experts from the University of Vienna found an exceptionally well-preserved ancient astrakanthus shark skeleton in limestone in Bavaria, Germany.
The famous limestone region was formed in a landscape of tropical and subtropical lake, during the late Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago.
The almost complete skeleton shows that the shark was 8 feet long; What makes it one of the largest sharks at the time, close to the maximum length ever recorded of 10 feet.
There were more than 150 teeth inside the skeleton, which led main explorer Sebastian Stumpf to say that it was probably one of the most impressive sharks of that time period.
