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Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Imagine a 25-foot-long shark, but instead of having a typical set of jaws, it packs a chainsaw-like ‘tongue’ full of razor-sharp teeth ready to slash through prey with ease. While it sounds like something straight out of a Killer B Movie, it is anything but. A group of American researchers has described just such a creature that lived about 270 million years ago based on the animal’s fossilized spiral set of teeth....