A palaeontologist’s book review of A Secret History of Sharks

For approximately 450 million years, sharks and their cartilaginous relatives have been a major hallmark of marine life. Withstanding multiple cataclysmic events, most notably those at the end of the Permian and Cretaceous, and maintaining a great diversity in today’s oceans, the evolutionary history of sharks is a lengthy, gripping tale of one of the [&hellip