LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas at one time had a shark.
Granted, you’d have to go back 326 million years to see the Arkansas shark in action.
According to the American Museum of Natural History, the shark-like Cosmoselachus mehlingi (COSS-mo-see-LAH-kus MEL-in-ghee) at one time wandered in the Fayetteville Shale area. According to museum officials, it is named after Carl Mehling, a former member of the museum’s paleontology division…