Prehistoric shark done in by whale, frozen in time
Posted by staff / November 7, 2011
About 40 million years ago, a single shark in Egyptian waters snuck below a whale and attempted to rip it to shreds, but it wasn’t entirely successful.
The shark-bit and torn apart whale, described in the latest Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, was recently discovered as a stonecutter in Italy prepared to slice into decorative limestone. The whale, whose last moments were painful ones, turns out to represent a new species, Aegyptocetus tarfa, which lived on land as well as in the sea.
Full story at Discovery News.
Above: A prehistoric whale.
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