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Resurrecting the shark, a scientific obsession and the mavericks who solved the mystery of a 270-million-year-old fossil, Susan Ewing

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Resurrecting the shark, a scientific obsession and the mavericks who solved the mystery of a 270-million-year-old fossil, Susan Ewing

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index

Illustrations

portraitsplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Resurrecting the shark

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

951925606

Responsibility statement

Susan Ewing

Sub title

a scientific obsession and the mavericks who solved the mystery of a 270-million-year-old fossil

Summary

"In 1993 Alaskan artist and paleo-fish enthusiast, Ray Troll, stumbled upon the weirdest fossil he had ever seen in a museum -- a platter-sized spiral of tightly wound shark teeth, from the Helicoprion, a mysterious monster from deep time. In 2010 the undergraduate student, Jesse Pruitt, became seriously smitten with a Helicoprion fossil in a museum basement in Idaho. Together, they researched and were able, with others, to reanimate this awe-inspiring beast."--From jacket flap

Table Of Contents

Lasting impressions -- The shark bites -- Right shark, wrong name -- First, cousins -- Whorl of fortune -- Karpinsky makes the call: helicoprion -- A shiver of sharks -- Signs of life -- The art of obsession -- The new guard -- Resurrection, one slice at a time -- Coming to terms -- To the summit and beyond -- Shark is a verb

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