| Sharkteeth Necklaces |
It's easy: the white ones are fresh from modern sharks
(tooth material = enamel) and the black and brown ones are fossilized
teeth, millions of years old - rock. For more on fossilized sharkteeth
(or for as much as I know...) click here.
All our sharkteeth are strung on waxed cotton cord with slipknots
- easy to adjust to any length, tough and good with water.
The small ones are between 1/2 and 3/4 inch big. From $7 to $38. |
Click on the image to view a bigger picture
and to order. |
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Fossil
Mako with Skull and Crossbones $25 |
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About fossilized sharkteeth:
so why aren't they in a museum if they are that old?
Sharkteeth are the most abundant fossil out there. Imagine, every
shark has up to 1000 teeth in their jaw. They're disposable for
them, they regrow their teeth. Now figure millions of years, maybe
billions of sharks x 1000 teeth? That makes?... lots of them.
They are deposited in layers that you can access for example in
the rivers and beaches of Florida, the copper mines of Chile, South
America or the desert sands of the Sahara, Africa. Fascinating stuff.
Charcarodon megalodon, the ancestor of the Great White, was the
biggest one of them all (so they say) with teeth up to 7 inches
big. About 10 to 20 million years old.
Other species of fossil sharkteeth are mako (a different kind
of mako than today's), great white, tiger, lemon, bull, sandtiger,
etc.
Enjoy your own piece of prehistoric marine life!
Some links about sharkteeth:
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