Huge relatives of white #sharks lived earlier than thought
8m “megapredator” sharks patrolled #Australia's seas 115 million years ago
Pushes back age of earliest giant #lamniform sharks — kin to #greatwhitesharks and Otodus #megalodon — by 15 million yr
“These sharks were serious contenders, playing the role of apex predators alongside dominant megafauna such as marine reptiles,” says Mohamad Bazzi, an evolutionary biologist at Stanford University
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/relatives-great-white-tiger-sharks
https://archive.ph/7Q60c