Resurrecting the shark
Subtitle: a scientific obsession and the mavericks who solved the mystery of a 270-million-year-old fossil
By: Susan Ewing
Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781681773438
Subjects: Sharks; Fossil Sharks; Fossils; Helicoprion
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index.
Table of contents: title: Lasting impressions; title: The shark bites; title: Right shark, wrong name; title: First, cousins; title: Whorl of fortune; title: Karpinsky makes the call: helicoprion; title: A shiver of sharks; title: Signs of life; title: The art of obsession; title: The new guard; title: Resurrection, one slice at a time; title: Coming to terms; title: To the summit and beyond; title: Shark is a verb.