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Resurrecting the shark : a scientific obsession and the mavericks who solved the mystery of a 270-million-year-old fossil / Susan Ewing.
Van Pelt Library QE852.C52 E85 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ewing, Susan, 1954- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Troll, Ray, 1954-.
- Troll, Ray.
- Pruitt, Jesse.
- Helicoprion.
- Sharks, Fossil.
- Chondrichthyes, Fossil.
- Sharks.
- Fossils.
- Paleobiology.
- Sharks--Evolution.
- Evolution.
- Physical Description:
- 282 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2017.
- Summary:
- "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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "April 2017"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781681773438
- 1681773430
- OCLC:
- 951925606
- Publisher Number:
- 99971799870
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