Meet the Eagle Shark!

[suspsy]

Easily one of the weirdest prehistoric sharks yet! Someone get on making a toy of it!

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-shark-fossil-weird-fins-manta-ray-underwater-flight?fbclid=IwAR2bGJvwjchLrOuRJunRy_70_JhHzhj5C3z3wNocmU4N0JY7mR4LD5U9XXw

[Halichoeres]

This is an incredible fossil and Aquilolamna is a super interesting animal. Unfortunately, it's another case of extremely dubious provenance, as with Ubirajara.

[Faelrin]

It is a spectacular fossil. Looks very interesting too with those long fins.

@Halichoeres That sounds unfortunate. I'm curious what happened with this one? Article didn't have much info other than that it was found in a quarry in Mexico.

[andrewsaurus rex]

wow, that's quite a fossil.

somebody needs to make toys of many of the extinct sharks.....Safari has made lots of nice 6-7 inch sized shark figures, why are they ignoring prehistoric sharks, which are uber interesting.   There  little toob sharks don't cut it.

[CityRaptor]

Probably because:
"We want to make a toy of a prehistoric shark!"
"Let's make Megalodon! And make it look like an overgrown great white shark!"

[Stegotyranno420]

Probably because:
"We want to make a toy of a prehistoric shark!"
"Let's make Megalodon! And make it look like an overgrown great white shark!"

Seriously, even as a kid i thought it was oversaturated. I just wish people will tackle all these crazy sharks like acanthodians and  these eagle sharks

[E.D.G.E. (PainterRex)]

I've made a video on this new find if anyone's interested!

https://youtu.be/ZdWrJO5_fvc

[Halichoeres]

@Faelrin some of it is here: https://twitter.com/mathchaos/status/1372985456787402753

Essentially, Eberhard Frey and and Wolfgang Stinnesbeck routinely obtain fossils from Mexico, Peru, Brazil, other countries they deem incapable of conducting science, by a variety of dubious means, including the black market. This fossil appears to be in a private collection but is nominally accessioned to a museum that doesn't exist yet. The accession is probably just to give it cover so that Science would be willing to publish it. 

People might recognize Frey as also being an author on the Ubirajara paper that was retracted from Cretaceous Research.