Alligator Tooth

Sold individually  Alligators are remnants of an age long gone and are the closest thing we have (until someone decides to pull a Jurassic Park, which seems imminent) to dinosaurs walking the Earth. The American alligator as we know it today didn’t live alongside the dinosaurs, but its ancestors absolutely did. Alligators belong to a group called archosaurs, which includes both modern crocodilians and extinct dinosaurs. The American alligator itself showed up more recently—around 6 to 8 million years ago—but it's part of a lineage that’s basically shrugged off several mass extinction events. Considering how most creatures fared during those times, it’s an absolute wonder these are even still around today. An interesting tidbit about them is their ability to grow new teeth throughout their lifetime. Alligators can lose up to 3,000 teeth over the course of their lives, but for every tooth they lose, a new one grows in to take its place. Considering the force their massive jaws can produc