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Sharks in Kentucky? Mind-blowing Mammoth Cave find

By Emma Austin, Louisville Courier Journal

During a trip to Mammoth Cave National Park in November, paleontologist John-Paul Hodnett was stunned. Preserved in the walls of the cave were parts of a large, fossilized shark head -- from a shark that lived about 330 million years ago.

The discovery began when Mammoth Cave specialists Rick Olson and Rick Toomey came across the fossils as they explored and mapped the cave system. They sent photos to Vincent Santucci, the senior paleontologist for the National Park Service in Washington, D.C., for help identifying the fossils.

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330-million-year-old shark remains found in Mammoth Cave



2020-01-29 - Hart Co., KY - Photo by Matt Cecil.
Researchers discovered fossilized remains of a 330-million-year-old shark in Mammoth Cave.

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