You might be surprised to learn that sharks are older than trees as they've been around for at least 400 million years. ... The earliest shark teeth are from early Devonian deposits, some 400 million years old, in what today is Europe.

Do sharks predate dinosaurs?

In fact, sharks and their relatives were the first vertebrate predators on Earth. Shark fossils date back more than 400 million years – that means sharks managed to outlive the dinosaurs, survive mass extinctions, and continue to serve an important role near the top of underwater food chains.

What do sharks predate?

Fun fact of the day: Sharks are older than trees. The earliest species that we could classify as “tree,” the now-extinct Archaeopteris, lived around 350 million years ago, in forests where the Sahara desert is now.