WASHINGTON – About 93 million years ago, a bizarre plankton-eating shark shaped unlike any other known marine creature glided through the sea in what is now northeastern Mexico using curiousl… ...

“Aquilolamna is a shark; definitively, there’s no problem,” said Romain Vullo, a paleontologist at the University of Rennes in France and lead author of the paper, in a video call.

"The discovery of complete Ptychodus specimens is really exciting because it solves one of the most striking enigmas in vertebrate paleontology," lead author Romain Vullo, a researcher at ...

So, it's likely that the eagle shark lived in the same type of marine real estate that modern manta and devil rays do now, said study lead researcher Romain Vullo, a vertebrate paleontologist with ...

In 2012, an unknown quarry worker found a strange set of bones in 95-million-year-old rock layers near Vallecillo, Mexico, says Romain Vullo, a paleontologist at the State Museum of Karlsruhe in ...

Dr Romain Vullo, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2024. The nearly intact fossil allowed scientists to get a good picture of the extinct species, ...

That's certainly the case with "Aquilolamna milarcae", a newly-discovered, plankton-chomping beast uncovered by Romain Vullo and colleagues from the Universite de Rennes.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 93 million years ago, a bizarre plankton-eating shark shaped unlike any other known marine creature glided through the sea in ...

In Mexico, complete fossils of the great white shark’s ancient relative that lived alongside the dinosaurs have been unearthed. The discovery was made in a limestone quarry in Nuevo León, which ...

Romain Vullo. Naturwissenchaften, published online March 31, 2011. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-011-0789-9. Topics animals fossils Paleontology sharks. Read More. I Have Beef With Tallow.

In 2021, Vullo was the lead author on a paper describing Aquilolamna milarcae, a bizarre-looking Cretaceous era lamniform shark that was excavated from the same sweep of eastern Mexico.

'Many adjectives can be used to describe this shark: unusual, unique, extraordinary, bizarre, weird,' says vertebrate paleontologist Romain Vullo ...