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Download Resurrecting The Shark: A Scientific Obsession And The Mavericks Who Solved The Mystery Of A 270-million-year-old Fossil A prehistoric mystery. A fossil so mesmerizing that it boggled the minds of scientists for more than a century—until 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-shark enthusiast Ray Troll stumbled upon the weirdest fossil he had ever seen—a platter-sized spiral of tightly wound shark teeth. This chance encounter in the basement of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County sparked Troll's obsession with Helicoprion, a mysterious monster from deep time. In 2010, tattooed undergraduate student and returning Iraq War veteran Jesse Pruitt became seriously smitten with a Helicoprion fossil in a museum basement in Idaho. These two bizarre-shark disciples found each other, and an unconventional band of collaborators grew serendipito...

Download Jawsome Shark Quizzes: Test Your Knowledge Of Shark Types, Behaviors, Attacks, Legends And Other Trivia Dive into the Shark-Infested Trivia You call yourself a shark a-fish-ionado, but how well do you really know the ocean’s ultimate predator? Test your intelligence with these interactive quizzes packed to the gills with fun facts. • Do sharks sleep? • Can sharks see in color? • Can you hypnotize a shark? • How far away can a shark detect its prey? • What’s the fastest shark? Strongest shark? Largest shark? • Does the great white shark have predators? • How high can a mako shark jump? • What’s a group of sharks called? With the fin-formation in Jawsome Shark Quizzes, you can impress your chums with your knowledge of all things shark.