Aquatic and marine animals live in or near water and include birds, mammals, turtles, fish, sharks, and rays. Aquatic animals are adapted to life in and around water. Many aquatic adaptations take similar form: fusiform, or torpedo-like, bodies, flippers to assist in propulsion, the reduction or loss of hind limbs and pelvis, and a non-bony tail. An examination of the skeletal form gives insight into an animal’s survival strategy. Bone Clones® skeletons and skulls can give visitors and students a visceral experience of animals' structural framework, as they are durable and withstand handling. Bone Clones® can illustrate similarities and highlight differences in osteological form. Dolphin and manatee skeletons displayed together demonstrate similarity in body shape. Seal and dolphin forelimbs, side-by-side, illustrate convergent evolution. The addition of a human forelimb illustrates divergent evolution. Aquatic bird skulls illustrate a variety of differing strategies employed by aquatic bird species.

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Display Stand for Large Megalodon Tooth

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This black resin display stand is the perfect way to showcase a large megalodon shark tooth. Made of solid polyurethane resin, this stand has plenty of weight for added stability. While this stand was designed specifically for our megalodon shark teeth, it may also fit other megalodon teeth of a similar size. See dimensions on the product page.

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Fossil Whale Teeth, Basilosaurus cetoides, Set of 16

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Basilosaurus, one of the first fully aquatic whales, had large multi-cusped teeth adapted for shearing fish and squid. It is believed to have been one of the largest animals of the Paleogene period, reaching around 70 feet in length and weighing up to 15 tons! As a fierce apex predator, Basilosaurus hunted sharks, large fish, and the smaller dolphin-like relative, Dorudon.

Megalodon Shark Jaw

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The Megalodon shark inhabited the warm coastal waters of the world approximately 17 million years ago to about 2 million years ago. Their somewhat smaller predecessors roamed the seas as early as the late Eocene, about 35 mya. The specimens from which these teeth came are estimated to have lived about 10 mya.

Whorl Tooth Shark Teeth (Helicoprion)

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Until recently, very little was known about the unusual specimen called the whorl tooth shark except that the front teeth grew in a spiral containing up to 180 teeth. This cast is made from the specimen of the type genus, Helicoprion bessonovi, and was found in the Arta Beds in the Ural Region of Russia in 1899.

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