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3. Helicoprion

This was a long-lived, extinct shark-like fish about 39 feet long with a spirally arranged cluster of teeth called “tooth whorl” that’s about 2 feet long. The Helicoprion lived during the early Permian period, 290 million years ago, and the chimeras are its closest living relatives. Can you even imagine being attacked by this underwater killing machine?

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