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Shark fossils in an Illinois coal mine? That's just the old news. Shark fossils in an Illinois coal mine? That's just the old news. Upon re-examining 310 million year old fossils of (now extinct) spoon-billed sharks known as badringas first discovered in a coal mine in Illinois in 1969, scientists determined that the specimens were actually all babies, Live Science reported.