{"product_id":"9781681776828","title":"Resurrecting the Shark: A Scientific Obsession and the Mavericks Who Solved the Mystery of a 270-Million-Year-Old Fossil","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eEwing, Susan\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePegasus Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e04\/10\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eHelicoprion\u003c\/i\u003e, a mysterious monster shark from deep time.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn 2010, tattooed amateur strongman and returning Iraq War veteran Jesse Pruitt was also severely smitten by a \u003ci\u003eHelicoprion\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHelicoprion\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eHelicoprion\u003c\/i\u003e patrolled the shallow seas around the supercontinent Pangaea as the apex predator of its time.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJust 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this groundbreaking book, Susan Ewing reveals these revolutionary insights into what \u003ci\u003eHelicoprion\u003c\/i\u003e looked like and how the tooth whorl functioned—pushing this dazzling and awe-inspiring beast into the spotlight of modern science","brand":"Pegasus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44655389737215,"sku":"9781681776828","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/Jacket_1358edae-4eb5-4725-ae75-9bb41ef2ea04.jpg?v=1737017966","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9781681776828","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}