The Ark Survival Ascended Helicoprion gets an official update, and this new shark’s terrifying appearance belies a great ...

The Helicoprion is one of the strangest sharks to ever swim the seas - known for its bizarre buzz saw jaw. In this video, we explore the mystery behind this prehistoric predator, how its spiral of ...

The Helicoprion, a 20-foot-long carnivorous fish that lived 270 million years, probably fed mostly on prehistoric cephalopods, or relatives to today’s squid and octopus, according to Switek.

Idaho State University professor Leif Tapanila, curator of the ISU Museum of Natural History’s earth sciences division, shows a fossil of the teeth from the ancient shark species Helicoprion on ...

Object Details author Ewing, Susan 1954- Subject Troll, Ray 1954- Pruitt, Jesse Notes "April 2017"--Title page verso. Contents Lasting impressions -- The shark bites -- Right shark, wrong name -- ...

Helicoprion was an ancient ratfish, not a shark, but was just as scary, with a whorl of teeth like a buzz saw. WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images Helicoprion Though not technically a shark, this shark ...

The Helicoprion’s teeth filled the lower jaw - the shark had no upper row of teeth. Instead, the bottom teeth rotated backward in a sawlike motion to cut its prey and then rip it apart.

An example of Helicoprion from northeast Elko County, Nevada, was discovered in quartzites which underlie limestones with ?Schwagerina sp. The specimen gives further evidence of the range of this ...

The techniques that Pruitt, Tapanila, Troll, and collaborators used to envision Helicoprion will help reveal the nature of some of these other weird fish. But Helicoprion will always be the star ...

One of the displays shows a 15-foot fiberglass helicoprion hanging from the ceiling. However, the more life-size model is the gargantuan head of another one bursting through a living room wall.