The Library’s new catalog is here. Call 419.259.5200 or visit any location for help.

My Library



     
Limit search to available items
1 result found. sorted by date .


Book Cover

PRINT MATL
Author Ewing, Susan, 1954- author.

Title Resurrecting the shark : a scientific obsession and the mavericks who solved the mystery of a 270-million-year-old fossil / Susan Ewing.

Publisher New York : Pegasus Books, 2017.

ISBN 9781681773438 (hardcover)
1681773430 (hardcover)



Location Call No. Status Message
 Oregon Branch Adult  567.3 Ewi    AVAILABLE  ---
 Point Place Branch Adult  567.3 Ewi    AVAILABLE  ---
 Toledo Heights Branch Adult  567.3 Ewi    AVAILABLE  ---

RESOURCES
 
Add a Review

Description 282 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), 1 color map, portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index.
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
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
Subject Troll, Ray, 1954-
Pruitt, Jesse.
Subject(S) Sharks, Fossil.
Chondrichthyes, Fossil.
Paleobiology.
Sharks.
Fossils.
Sharks -- Evolution.
ISBN 9781681773438 (hardcover)
1681773430 (hardcover)