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Paleontologists discover 70-million-year-old shark fossil site in Egypt's Western Desert

Researchers from Cairo University identified 14 fossilized teeth representing five extinct shark species at the Abu Tartur plateau. The discovery provides new data on the marine biodiversity of the region during the Late Cretaceous period.

Al Jazeera AR3 days agoEGCredibility 49%View source

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Confidence0.9
Significance0.1
Source credibility0.5

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#paleontology#egypt#fossils#cretaceous#marine biology

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Abu Tartur plateauCairo

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