Cretoxyrhine: the Ginsu shark

Happy Shark Week! To celebrate this event and this exciting opportunity to educate the world about sharks, we will venture into the Early Cretaceous to meet the Great White of its time, Cretoxyrhina!

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Gray ideas: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUPEhJml_vNSn0GtyhS08_w

EDGE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAaqNKI6oCjlgI4aRV1ciqg

Sources:

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6296329

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