Vintage Jaws: Kentucky Miner Finds 300 Million-Year-Old Shark Bones (via NewsFeed)

Jay Wright, a 25-year-old Kentucky miner, found a jawbone belonging to a 300-million-year-old fossil shark. This past February, when Wright was working to bolt a roof some 210 meters (700 feet) below the surface, a small rock fell from the ceiling. When he looked up, he saw what ended up being an 18-inch piece of fossilized jawbone, with a perfect alignment of well-preserved killer teeth. (More on TIME.com: The Red Sea Shark Attacks: Jaws Revisit … Read More

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