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Resurrecting the Shark : A Scientific Obsession and the Mavericks Who Solved the Mystery of a 270-Million-Year-Old Fossil, EPUB eBook

Resurrecting the Shark : A Scientific Obsession and the Mavericks Who Solved the Mystery of a 270-Million-Year-Old Fossil EPUB

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A prehistoric mystery. A fossil so mesmerizing that it boggled the minds of scientists for more than a centuryuntil a motley crew of modern day shark fanatics decided to try to bring the monster-predator back to life.

In 1993, Alaskan artist and paleo-fish freak Ray Troll stumbled upon the weirdest fossil he had ever seena platter-sized spiral of tightly wound shark teeth. This chance encounter in the basement of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County sparked Trolls obsession with Helicoprion, a mysterious monster shark from deep time.

In 2010, tattooed amateur strongman and returning Iraq War veteran Jesse Pruitt was also severely smitten by a Helicoprion fossil in a museum basement in Idaho. These two bizarre-shark disciples found each other, and an unconventional band of collaborators grew serendipitously around them, determined to solve the puzzle of the tooth whorl once and for all.

Helicoprion was a Paleozoic chondrichthyan about the size of a modern great white shark, with a circular saw of teeth centered in its lower jawa feature unseen in the shark world before or since. For some ten million years, long before the Age of Dinosaurs, Helicoprion patrolled the shallow seas around the supercontinent Pangaea as the apex predator of its time.

Just a few tumultuous years after Pruitt and Troll met, imagination, passion, scientific process, and state-of-the-art technology merged into an unstoppable force that reanimated the remarkable creatureand made important new discoveries.

In this groundbreaking book, Susan Ewing reveals these revolutionary insights into what Helicoprion looked like and how the tooth whorl functionedpushing this dazzling and awe-inspiring beast into the spotlight of modern science

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