A partial skeleton reveals the world’s oldest known shark attack
A man encountered the animal 3,000 years ago off the coast of Japan
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A man buried near Japan’s coast around 3,000 years ago, whose skeleton is shown where it was excavated, is the oldest known victim of a shark bite, a new study finds.
Laboratory of Physical Anthropology/Kyoto University