A research published on June 3 in PLOS One Journal has reported the discovery of a shark vertebrae found in a creek in Texas by a team of amateur paleontologists led by Joseph A. Frederickson. Trolling the ocean at 20 ft, this gigantic shark found in Texas is the size of a two-story building!

Frederickson’s team tripped over the three large vertebrae of the ancient fossils six years ago while walking the Duck Creek Formation in Texas. The vertebrae date back to the Late Cretaceous period nearly 100 million years ago.

Frederickson claimed, “That’s the interesting thing; this is one of the biggest sharks that ever lived, one of the two or three biggest to swim in the ocean ever”.

Frederickson explained that though this huge shark is closer in size to that of a white shark, it is a nearer relative to the sand tiger and goblin sharks.

Frederickson added that these giant sharks roamed in gangs, millions of years ago and could have possibly eaten just about anything as at 20 feet, there is not much it could not eat!

Frederickson informed that further research was needed to ascertain how these sharks grew up. Since, the fossil sharks are identified based on teeth and there were no teeth found here, Fredrickson and his research partners could not decipher the exact species of this shark.

Fredrickson has donated the fossils to the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History to enable further research. This shark is 10 feet shorter than similar shark remains found in the Kiowa Shale in Kansas in 1997.