Smithsonian Shark Teeth collection

An array of teeth from the sand tiger shark, Carcharias taurus. The Smithsonian has the largest collection of shark teeth in the world, with more than 90,000 fossil shark teeth. More about sharks and great whites can be found in our Great White Shark featured story.

An array of teeth from ragged tooth sharks.
© Robert Purdy/Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

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Shark teeth

I'm catching up on the Smithsonian. I have over 48,000 now and counting

Submitted by Buddy Gilbert (not verified) on Sun, 04/21/2013 - 8:16pm.

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