Triton diving centre/The Siberian Times The 10ft fossilised teeth are believed to be around 34 million years old

Divers found the teeth of the predator - still sharp after around 34 million years. The amazing catch came earlier this month in the Kurgan region in the southern Urals.

The fossilised teeth were discovered alongside the tusk and bones of ancient woolly mammoths in the Tobol River during an expedition led by Sergey Kondrashin, member of the Russian Geographical Society. He estimates the shark teeth to be around 32-34 million years old. He said: "We are hoping that the scientists will be able to find a species that have not been studied earlier from the teeth of the sharks.

Triton diving centre/The Siberian Times The divers claimed the teeth were still sharp despite being millions of years old

We are hoping that the scientists will be able to find a species that have not been studied earlier from the teeth of the sharks Member of the Russian Geographical Society

"We will obtain the results in two weeks." A stretch of the fast flowing river is known as a treasure trove of ancient animal remains said to be "unique" in Europe, an underwater graveyard of mainly extinct species, reported in The Siberian Times. Until around 29 million years ago, this area was part of the vast prehistoric Turgay Sea, said Kondrashin, an explorer. "Intriguingly, this depository of ancient bones includes animal remains over an large time span, from tens of millions of years to a few thousand, all in the same stretch of water," he said.

GETTY Divers discovered the teeth alongside the ancient woolly mammoths in the Tobol River in Russia

On the same dive, woolly mammoth remains including a tusk, a thigh and other bones were fished from the murky waters. The skull of an ancient horse and bones of a bison were found, too. The teeth were located at a depth of around 10ft, he said.

GETTY A member of the Russian Geographical Society hopes to find further information about the teeth

They were laid out in the snow, next to the ice covered river. Earlier, other finds of sea life were found here, for example a cramp fish. He said: "Earlier we managed to find a skull of a wide-horned bison, the lower jaw of a mammoth, and the remains of a cave lion and ancient horse.

"This is a unique place, one of a kind in Europe." It has "an abnormally large aggregation of remains of dead animals" but manmade objects from the deep past have been pulled from the water, too. He said: "In January 2015 a fragment of a ceramic jar from the Neolithic Period was discovered on the river's bottom for the first time. "It helped to locate a new, previously unknown Neolithic camp of ancient man."