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The research introduces a broad, interdisciplinary effort to track how shark size changed through deep time.

It aims to drive breakthroughs in interdisciplinary science by attracting top researchers from around the world to collaborate on challenging scientific problems.

"One of the things that makes this work valuable is how interdisciplinary it was," Wagner said.

"Beyond this modern lesson, it is always surprising to find real history hidden in myth -- and truly interdisciplinary research like ours can help uncover it."

This interdisciplinary effort aims to shed light on climate and environmental evolution in the Upper Rhine Graben and southwestern Germany over the past 400,000 years.