Photograph showing the detail of the bite and embedded tooth (IMAGE)

Bournemouth University

Photograph showing the detail of the bite and embedded tooth

Caption

Photo detail of some shark bite marks on the skull of the extinct right whale. The lower photo shows a bite made by the bluntnose six-gill shark, with a tooth tip deeply embedded in the bone. Scale bars = 10 mm. Photos by Olivier Lambert (RBINS).

Credit

Photos by Olivier Lambert (RBINS).

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License

CC0

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