Author: William King GregoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Memorial of Bashford Dean
Author: William King GregoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Bashford Dean Memorial Volume
Author: Eugene Willis GudgerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The American Journal of Science
Author: Resurrecting the Shark
Author: Susan EwingPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681773929
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
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-fish freak 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 shark from deep time. In 2010, tattooed amateur strongman and returning Iraq War veteran Jesse Pruitt was also severely smitten by 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 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
The Bashford Dean Memorial Volume: Gregory, W. K. Memorial of Bashford Dean
Author: Bashford DeanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Festschriften
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Records of the Indian Museum
Author: Indian MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
A journal of Indian zoology.
The American Journal of Science
Author: Mrs. GamboldRecords of the Indian Museum
Author: Bulletin
Author: Biological Papers ...
Author: Bertram Garner SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description