Resurrecting the Shark: A Scientific Obsession and the Mavericks Who Solved the Mystery of a 270-Million-Year-Old Fossil

by Susan Ewing

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681773430
• ISBN13: 9781681773438
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"