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Tooth Scale

How big was a Megalodon's tooth, really? This big. A fossil tooth at its true size stands proud of a plate beside the outline of a hand — a child's or an adult's — with a caption that says what it is and how big, and a name along the bottom. Six teeth: Megalodon, T. rex, Spinosaurus, great white, mosasaur, Velociraptor. For the fossil shop's rack, the classroom and the bedroom wall. Made to order.

A hand for scale, as an outline. A Megalodon tooth beside an adult's hand is wider than we can make in one piece — pick a child's hand or no hand for that one.

Up to 16 letters. The caption above it — the tooth, its size, "true size" — is always there.

The sizes are real. Each tooth is the crown of a large adult of its kind, measured from the literature: a Megalodon's 165 mm (6.5 in), a T. rex's 150 mm crown, a Spinosaurus's 105 mm cone, a great white's 62 mm, a mosasaur's 48 mm, a Velociraptor's 25 mm. Serrated species carry their saw along both edges. The hand is a typical child's (150 mm, heel to fingertip) or adult's (190 mm). Made in PLA, face up, in three colors: the plate, the tooth standing 1.2 mm proud, the hand inlaid flush; the lettering engraved, or raised in a fourth color. A hole-free plate: hang it with a strip or stand it on a shelf.