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Scientists find world s oldest evidence of a shark attack â and it isn t pretty
In a new study from the University of Oxford, archeologists shared evidence of what could be the earliest known shark attack in recorded history â a 3,000-year-old human skeleton marked with gashes and puncture wounds.
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The original excavation photograph of shark attack victim Number 24 from the 1920s.(Submitted by J. Alyssa White/Laboratory of Physical Anthropology/Kyoto University)
Researchers uncover the remains of what they say is a 3,000-year-old shark attack victim, in what is believed to be the earliest direct evidence for a shark attack on a human.
Researchers have discovered what they say is the earliest direct evidence of a shark attack on a human, with the sea creature inflicting some 790 injuries on a man 3,000 years ago.