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A ‘Shark Graveyard’ in Egypt’s Desert Reveals a Lost Cretaceous Sea

Published on: Thursday 08 October 2026

The fossils, recovered from Egypt’s Western Desert, belong to at least five extinct shark species that lived there more than 70 million years ago, when the region was covered by a warm tropical sea.

News source: https://www.zmescience.com/science/paleontology/shark-graveyard-egyptian-desert/

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A ‘Shark Graveyard’ in Egypt’s Desert Reveals a Lost Cretaceous Sea