A research team, including Dr. Mike Newbrey and Tatianna Blake of Columbus State University, has made a breakthrough discovery in the world of sharks.

They helped identify a 115-million-year-old extinct lamniform shark vertebrae fossil. This suggests that giant sharks were around nearly 15 million years earlier than previously thought.

How it Started: Found by researchers on the coast of Australia in the 1980s, the shark vertebrae was left in a museum collection and remained unstudied for decades. That was until members of this research team stumbled upon them.

Dr. Michael Newbrey was called to be apart of the team because he is one of the only people to study shark vertebrae.

Just how big was the shark? That is where Dr. Newbrey and the team began to run into problems. There had not b

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