Bizarre ancient shark had ‘wings’ ...Qatar

About 93mn 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 curiously elongated wing-like fins that rendered its body wider than it was long. Scientists announced yesterday the discovery of a nearly complete fossil of the shark, called Aquilolamna milarcae, that lived during the Cretaceous Period at a time when dinosaurs ruled the land. Its unusual proportions – a fin span of about 6-1/4 feet (1.9m) and a length from head to tail of about 5-1/2 feet (1.65m) – left the scientists amazed. Aquilolamna’s name means “eagle shark”, a nod to its slender pectoral fins, which “mainly acted as an e

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