If you take a trip to Morden, Manchester, be sure to stop by the Canadian Fossil Discovery Center (CFDC) and say hello to Dave.
Dave is a shark – a very, very old shark. It is part of a new exhibit at the museum, and according to CDFC director Adolfo Quetara, it may be the first of its kind to be discovered.
“It’s not very common to find sharks because shark skeletons are made of a cartilaginous, soft material,” Quetara said.
“Usually we only find shark teeth… In this case we have the opposite. We have the whole skeleton of a shark—a large one—but no teeth. This is something very special about science.
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Quetara said the 15-foot Dave is the only near-complete fossil shark skeleton in Canada and one of the four or five largest in the world.
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The skeleton had been hidden in the museum’s archives for more than four decades, he said, and was only recently rediscovered, at which point the CDFC realized what it had.
“With this shark, research is still ongoing. Hopefully within a few weeks or months we will know exactly which genus or species it is,” he said.
“It’s very likely to be a new species because there’s nothing like it in the fossil record from that time.”
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