My first shark of the year! 🦈
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shark research & conservation — protect and save the sharks !! 🦈
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Shark tooth Pattern fossil
While watching FroggyCrossing’s most recent 30 day challenge using no items it came to my attention that people might not understand the shark tooth pattern that they are showing on the fossil, and while Blather’s can try to explain it, nothing really does as good of a job as just showing you the crazy extinct animal as geologists/paleontologists think it was.
Yes folks, this is helicoprion. Initially, you might look at it and say, “I am not shocked it went extinct its mouth makes no sense!” however, I would like to remind you that current existing ray/sharks that are currently alive are just as extra and ridiculous.
such as:
Sawfish
Frilled Shark
Goblin Shark
and maybe the most handsome, but the most well known, the Hammerhead
and their less well known cousin, the bonnet head
Long story short, Sharks are old as hell, they have been on earth for 450 million years, not only is that way older than the dinosaurs, but they are also older than trees!
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