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Lei Yang

small shark tooth fragment next to dime for scale

Life on Earth

DNA from tooth in Florida man’s foot solves 25-year-old shark bite mystery

July 2, 2019

When Jeff Weakley tweezed open a blister-like bulge on his foot, he was not expecting to find a piece of…Read More

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