are sharks one of the oldest species?
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Shark The oldest generally accepted shark scales are from about 420 million years ago, in the Silurian period. The first sharks looked very different from modern sharks. The majority of modern sharks can be traced back to around 100 million years ago. Most fossils are of teeth, often in large numbers.
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Oldest Fossil Evidence for Animals Found The oldest fossilized evidence of animals has been unearthed in Oman and reveals that tiny sea sponges were abundant 635 million years ago, long before most of the planet's other major animal groups evolved, according to a new analysis.
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Cheetahs: Facts, Pictures & Habitat Cubs will stay with their mothers for one and a half to two years. Even under a mother's watch, 90 percent of cubs still die before they are three months old, according to the Smithsonian. Lions and hyenas often eat the young cheetahs. If they do make it to adulthood, the cats only live for around 10 to 12 years.
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How long have sharks been in existence? How long have sharks been in existence? A: Geological records show that modern shark species have existed for between 201 million and 174 million years. Earlier fish species similar to sharks existed as early as between 419 million and 359 million years ago.
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World's Oldest Shark Fossil Found Intact fossils of sharks, a boneless fish, are exceptionally rare. Many ancient shark species are known only by fossil teeth or skin scales. Until the recent find, Doliodus problematicus (Latin for a problematic deceiver), was among them.
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- Sharks have lived in the seas for at least 300 million years. Before there were any dinosaurs roaming the Earth, there were sharks. Today, sharks inhabit all of the world's oceans at all latitudes and ocean temperatures. Some live in shallow water, while others live in water so deep that the sun never reaches them. No matter where you go, there are sharks to be found.
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- 1 Some species of sponges in the ocean near Antarctica are thought to be ten millennia old. 2  Specimens of the black coral genus Leiopathes are among the oldest continuously living organisms on the planet: around 4,265 years old.
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World's oldest creature is revealed to be 507-year-old shellfish called Ming â until scientists KILLED it by opening it up to check its age World's oldest creature is revealed to be 507-year-old shellfish called Ming – until scientists KILLED it by opening it up to check its age. Scientists initially thought the clam, named Ming, was 405 years old.
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World's oldest creature was 507...but scientists killed it World's oldest creature - known as Ming the mollusc - is proven even older than previously thought. Ming the Mollusc was 507 when he died, according to new research Photo: HANDOUT.
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Isurus Several extinct species are known from fossils found in sediments from Cretaceous to Quaternary (age range: 99.7 to 0.781 million years ago). The family Lamnidae also includes the great white shark and the porbeagle. Mako sharks are capable of swimming at speeds up to 60 km/h (37 mph), and jumping up to 7 m (23 ft) into the air. The great white shark is also closely related to an ancient mako shark, Isurus hastalis.
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Bacteria: Fossil Record However, one particular group of bacteria, the cyanobacteria or blue-green algae, have left a fossil record that extends far back into the Precambrian-the oldest cyanobacteria-like fossils known are nearly 3.5 billion years old, among the oldest fossils currently known.
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Shark Information Introduction to Sharks. Sharks are a large group of fish that have inhabited the oceans for over 400 million years, even before dinosaurs populated our planet. They belong to the superorder Selachimorpha, and modern sharks have specific characteristics like a cartilaginous skeleton, five or six pairs of gills and several rows of teeth.
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History of Sharks: The Devonian Period History of Sharks: The Devonian Period. The history of sharks goes back a long time. But the term “a long time” doesn’t even begin to cover it. Let’s put it this way: dinosaurs lived during the Mesozoic Era, which began about 245 million years ago. Sharks, on the other hand, were living on the planet 200 million years before dinosaurs!
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- A horseshoe crab, one of the oldest living animal species. The arapaima is one of the biggest freshwater fish in the world and considered a living fossil. The horseshoe crab is more closely related to spiders than crabs.
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List of State Fossils Primitive Whale (Basilosaurus cetoides) Age: Eocene Year Designated: 1984 Basilosaurus (king lizard) is a genus of early whale that lived 40 to 34 million years ago in the late Eocene. Basilosaurus represents one of the earliest whales although it is actually descended from land mammals.
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- Top 10 amazing movie makeup transformations. The oldest living animal species on Earth cannot be known for sure, because not every animal species or fossil has yet been discovered, but the current best guess is the horseshoe crab, which has remained pretty much unchanged since the Ordovician period, 445 million years ago.
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- Most of the filming was done on the small Greek island of Skopelos(during August/September 2006 and 2007), and the seaside hamlet of Damouchiri in the Pelion area of Greece.O … n Skopelos, Kastani beach on the south west coat was the film's main location site. Top Tours of the Mamma Mia Greek Island Skopelos is the beautiful location known as Kalokairi in the movie musical sensation Mamma Mia.. 2  This scenic island off the coast of Greece in the Aegean Sea is a favorite a….
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Vulpes The oldest known fossil species within Vulpes is Vulpes riffautae, which dates back to the late Miocene (which is within the Neogene) of Chad. The deposits these fossils are found within are about 7 million years old, which might make them the earliest Canidae in the Old World.he oldest known fossil species within Vulpes is Vulpes riffautae, which dates back to the late Miocene (which is within the Neogene) of Chad. The deposits these fossils are found within are about 7 million years old, which might make them the earliest Canidae in the Old World.
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- Spiny sharks, more formally called Acanthodians (having spines) , constitute the class Acanthodii. They first appeared by the late Silurian ~420 Ma, and were among the first fishes to evolve jaws. They share features with both cartilaginous fish and bony fish, but they are not true sharks, though leading to them.
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- Whitetail are the oldest living species of deer at 3.5 million years old. The blacktail deer split off from the whitetail at some time in the past, thought to be a million years ago or more. The blacktail are a different species from the whitetail.
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Clam, 405, is oldest animal ever Clam, 405, is oldest animal ever. It has been christened Ming and it's officially the oldest animal to have ever lived. A British scientific team discovered the 405-year-old clam, named after the Chinese dynasty and not the former Liberal Democrat leader, at the bottom of the ocean, and hope its longevity will reveal the secrets of ageing.
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- The Chondrichthyes are considered the oldest existing jawed-vertebrates related to bony vertebrates (Osteichthyes) [2][4]. The earliest dated Chondricthyes fossils are from the Silurian period (444-416 mya).
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- The supersized shark first appeared about 17 million years ago. It could be found in oceans all over the world. Other sea animals were likely terrified of it, and not just because of its size. Megalodon’s huge jaws were lined with about 276 serrated teeth.
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- The fossil record provides snapshots of the past that, when assembled, illustrate a panorama of evolutionary change over the past four billion years. The picture may be smudged in places and may have bits missing, but fossil evidence clearly shows that life is old and has changed over time. Nicholas Steno's anatomical drawing of an extant shark (left) and a fossil shark tooth (right).
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Sharks One well-known extinct relative of modern lamnoid sharks is the Megalodon (Carcharodon megalodon), which was more than 50 feet long with seven-inch teeth and lived 16 million years ago. (It went extinct 1.6 million years ago.)
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FISH Fish Fossils. TRIASSIC to PLEISTOCENE PERIOD: 230 million to 10,000 years ago. The oceans are believed to be more than 4 billion years old. They were home to the very first known form of life on our planet 3.5 million years ago, blue-green algae.