Jeff Weakley was surfing at Flagler Beach in Florida in 1994 when he was bitten in the foot by a shark. Now he knows what kind of shark bit him -- thanks to a tooth fragment he pulled from his foot more than two decades after the attack.
Weakley was surfing with some friends in college when he felt something bite his foot. He saw he was bleeding, and he went to the hospital where he received 20 stitches."I didn't see the shark, but the doctors were sure it was a shark bite. I went into the database as one of the statistics," Weakley told CNN during a telephone interview on Wednesday. He said he suffered no major damage to his foot. The shark resurfacesRead MoreResearcher Lei Yang holds up tooth specimen.
Weakley decided to see if he could get the answer to his attack's greatest mystery — what kind of shark bit him? Helicopter spots sharks just a few feet away from swimmers at Daytona BeachHe contacted the media relations department at the Florida Program for Shark Research at the Florida Museum of Natural History and told them he had a tooth sample he wanted to submit for DNA testing.
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