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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 serendipitously
around them, determined to solve the
puzzle of the mysterious 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 jaw―a 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
creature―and made important new
discoveries.
In this groundbreaking book, Susan Ewing
reveals these revolutionary insights into
what Helicoprion looked like and how the
tooth whorl functioned―pushing this
dazzling and awe-inspiring beast into the
spotlight of modern science.
24 pages of color illustrations
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