Sentences with phrase «ancient shark tooth»

What would a thief do with an ancient shark tooth?
The new findings on Arctic Ocean salinity conditions in the Eocene were calculated in part by comparing ratios of oxygen isotopes locked in ancient shark teeth found in sediments on Banks Island in the Arctic Circle and incorporating the data into a salinity model.
CU - Boulder Associate Professor Jaerlyn Eberle, left, and research colleagues collect ancient sharks teeth on Banks Island in the Arctic Circle.

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We've reached the end of our New Mexico road trip, and we have scoured the side of the road for long - dead sea creatures, found a shark tooth in an ancient seafloor and tracked long - dead worms across fossilized mud.
An ancient fish that sported a saw blade - like whorl of serrated teeth — and was long presumed to be a member of the shark family — actually belonged to a different but closely related group, a new study suggests.
Latest findings support the theory that teeth in the animal kingdom evolved from the jagged scales of ancient fish, the remnants of which can be seen today embedded in the skin of sharks and skate.
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