(STUDY FINDS) – Shark attacks are, statistically, one of the rarest ways a person can die. Worldwide, only about ten people are killed by shark attacks each year. Despite those odds, a recent study finds that’s exactly how a person met their end — 3,000 years ago. Researchers from the University of Oxford say they have discovered a human fossil whose remains suggest they died from a shark bite.
According to the team, the victim is the oldest, clear indication of a person killed by a shark. Professor Rick Schulting from Oxford University, and scholar J. Alyssa White, discovered the remains at Kyoto University during a separate study involving physical injury on the bones of archaic huntsmen. The two discovered “No24,” a mature man with several severe wounds, in the recently unearthed Tsukumo area.
“We were initially flummoxed by what could have caused at least 790 deep, serrated injuries to this man,” the Oxford pair says in a university release. “There were so many injuries and yet he was buried in the community burial ground, the Tsukumo Shell-mound cemetery site.”
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