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October 22, 2025
Burr Fourth Graders Study Shark Jaw during State Department of Environmental Conservation Visit
Burr fourth graders are experiencing the living ocean during a visit from New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation on Wednesday.
The intermediate school students got to touch the full jaw bone and a tooth from a white shark.
The students noticed the similar shape of the shark tooth to a replica fossil tooth of a Megalodon, an extinct species of giant mackerel shark that lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago.
The fourth graders also had the opportunity to touch a baleen — the filter-feeding system inside the mouths of baleen whales.