And, as the research team explain in their paper, which was recently published in the Journal of Palaeontology, it concerns ...

The species survived for over 16 million years ... Genetically, they were very closely linked to the sharks of today! These sharks lived all around the world until about 80 million years ago.

Over one quarter of all known shark species are considered threatened or endangered. Sharks are apex predators in many ecosystems, and their disappearance is causing dangerous imbalances in marine ...

a designation for species at major risk of extinction. Overfishing for its meat and fins, climate change, ocean pollution and insufficient regulatory protections throughout the shark’s range are all ...