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Paleontologists in Peru have unveiled the nine-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean, where it liked to devour sardines. The nearly-complete Cosmopolitodus Hastalis fossil was found some 235km south of Lima in Peru’s Pisco basin, a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species. The shark is believed to be an ancestor of the great white shark.
Researchers presented the ancient shark’s remains in several glass urns, including one containing a giant, sharp-toothed jaw. “There are not many complete shark in the world,” paleontologist Mario Urbina added at the presentation, adding the remains of numerous sardines were found inside the stomach. Urbina noted that as anchovies did not yet exist when the shark roamed the open seas and oceans, sardines formed a staple diet for marine predators.
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