How paleontologists are using fossilized shark teeth to date the past
Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...
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Extinct walrus-like mammal that sucked prey in prehistoric times discovered
Fossil evidence has led to the identification ... The fact that the modern walrus has a fused mandible and reduced teeth allows it to minimize the tensile and compressive forces that the oral ...
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Fossil shark teeth are abundant and can date the past in a unique way
Our study was one of the first to date Florida coastal deposits using fossil shark teeth and a technique that looks at variations in ocean strontium. Strontium is a chemical element that occurs ...
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Fossilized Fish Teeth Could Be Earliest Evidence of Cooking
Comparing the crystals in the ancient teeth to the modern teeth, as well as to fossil fish teeth they knew hadn’t been exposed to heat, the researchers found that the Gesher Benot Ya’aqov fish teeth ...
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Fossil shark teeth are abundant and can date the past in a unique way
MacFadden, University of Florida (THE CONVERSATION) The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal environments evolved in ancient times ...