Title:
Resurrecting the shark : a scientific obsession and the mavericks who solved the mystery of a 270-million-year-old fossil / Susan Ewing.
Author:
Ewing, Susan, 1954- author.
Publication Information:
New York : Pegasus Books, 2017.
Call Number:
QL638.9 .E94 2017
Abstract:
"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"-- Dust jacket.
Edition:
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
ISBN:
9781681773438
Physical Description:
282 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 cm
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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