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It is noted for its large snowbird population and was voted as a top 10 Happiest Seaside Towns by Coastal Living.
Venice is often called the
"Shark Tooth Capital of the World". I have visited the local beaches twice and found numerous shark teeth.
A shark tooth is one of the numerous teeth of a shark. A shark tooth contains resistant calcium phosphate materials.
Sharks continually shed their teeth; some sharks shed approximately 35,000 teeth in a lifetime, replacing those that fall out. There are four basic types of shark teeth: dense flattened, needle-like, pointed lower with triangular upper, and non-functional. The type of tooth that a shark has depends on its diet and feeding habits.
In some formations, shark's teeth are a common fossil. These fossils can be analyzed for information on shark and biology; they are often the only part of the shark to be fossilized. Fossil teeth comprise much of the fossil record of the Elasmobranchii, extending back to hundreds of millions of years. Shark teeth are also useful in conducting research about the structure of teeth, shark migration patterns, and identifying shark species.
The most ancient types of sharks date back to 450 million years ago, during the Late Ordovician period, and are mostly known by their fossilised teeth. However, the most commonly found fossil shark teeth are from the Cenozoic era (the last 66 million years).
For more information on shark teeth click on the Wikipedia link Wikipedia
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