What big teeth you have! This jaw, containing 182 teeth, is 11 feet wide and over 8 feet high and was made from resin scaled up from a Great White jaw set. The teeth, measuring up to 7 5/8 inches along the diagonal, come from the megaladon, an extinct species of predaceous shark that could grow to the length of two city buses. The late scuba diver and fossil collector, Vito Bartucci, spent sixteen years collecting the right teeth to create the world’s largest jaw set. The specimens were found mostly in the rivers of South Carolina and surrounding Mid-Atlantic states and were arranged in the jaw in four rows – the better to eat you with. The jaw set will be going up for auction in Dallas with an opening price of $625,000.
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