Today, the Abu Tartur Plateau in Egypt is a dry, rugged desert. Around 80 million years ago, however, this same landscape lay beneath a productive tropical sea. Fourteen fossilized teeth belonging to ...

Fourteen shark teeth have turned up in one of the driest places on Earth. The fossils, recovered from Egypt’s Western Desert, belong to at least five extinct shark species that lived there more than ...

An extraordinary discovery in Egypt's Western Desert is giving scientists a glimpse into a world that existed millions of years before the modern desert took shape. Researchers have uncovered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Anton Petrus/Moment/Getty Images) The desert sands of Egypt have been dry for thousands of years. As difficult as it is to ...

An assemblage of the collected shark teeth and the site where the teeth were found, the Abu-Tartur Plateau in Egypt's Western Desert. | Credit: Tarek Yassin Scientists have uncovered an ancient shark ...

Why are shark teeth found in the rocks of a scorching, rainless desert?It is usually impossible to find traces of an apex ...

In a stretch of Egyptian desert that today feels anything but aquatic, scientists say they've found evidence of a bustling ancient sea—in the form of a shark "graveyard." Between 2020 and 2022, ...

A team of researchers found 14 teeth of different shapes in the country’s Abu-Tartur Plateau, indicating that the region was once a nutrient-rich tropical sea ...

A recent discovery of fossilized shark teeth points to at least seven extinct species that once lived in the Western Desert. Reading time 2 minutes Millions of years ago, marine life flourished in ...

There was once a point when even Earth’s most notoriously dry spots were submerged beneath the sea. Going all the way back to the Cretaceous period, Egypt, the land we all commonly associate with ...