Prehistoric Sharks

Quick Stethacanthus Facts: - Lived during the Late Devonian to the Early Carboniferous Period - Swam in oceans all over the world - Name means "chest spike" - May have been a scavenger - May have been a Piscivore

Quick Edestus Facts: - Lived during the Late Carboniferous Period - Swam in oceans all over the world - Was about the size of a great white shark - Weighed as much as a rhino - Was a Piscivore

Quick Helicoprion Facts: - Lived during the Early Miocene to the Late Pliocene Periods - Swam in oceans all over the world - Was almost half the length of a semi-trailer - Weighed as much as a horse - May have lived off of a diet of squids

Quick Megalodon Facts: - Lived during the Early Miocene to the Late Pliocene Periods - Swam in oceans all over the world - Its fossilized teeth were mistaken for dragon tongues - 3 times longer than a killer whale - Weighs half as much as a blue whale - Lived on a diet of dolphins, giant sea turtles and whales

Quick Hybodus Facts: - Lived during the Late Permian Period to the Late Cretaceous Period - Swam in oceans all over the world - Ate fish and other marine animals - Was about as long as a human male is tall - Weighed as much as a human male

Quick Cretoxyrhina Facts: - Lived during the Middle to Late Cretaceous Period - Swam in oceans all over the world - Ate fish and other marine animals - Was longer than a great white shark - Weighed as much as a great white shark