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From the album: Fossil Diagrams
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From the album: Fossil Diagrams
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Most of you may have heard of Nicholas Steno, a Catholic saint that also was involved in discovering the origin of fossils. His dissection of a shark lead him to realize the origin of fossil shark teeth on areas that were now land. These were popularly thought of as being petrified snake tongues, which they called "glossopetrae." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Steno He published a book of his observations, which included some lovely illustrations of the shark and fossil shark teeth. I cleaned up some of these images digitally, and used one of his as a backing to a framed megladon tooth. Anyway, there is how it came out. I had shutterfly.com print the images 8x10 for me, and put it in a shadowbox frame. It was pretty easy, pm me if you want a hires version digital of the background images. Here is the image for the background (send me a PM and I will e-mail you the hi-res version suitable for printing): Here is another one of Steno's images that would be a good alternate background to use (PM me for the hires version):
