Crossword-Solution: HAMMERHEAD 10 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

The common shark is perhaps the most fundamental form, with a hull-like body undivided into head, trunk, and tail, and from it have originated such peculiar variations as the hammerhead and skate.

The grotesque skate and hammerhead shark were demonstrated to be derivatives of a simpler type of shark; their embryos are practically indistinguishable from those of ordinary dogfish and sharks.

CHAPTER XXX THE GRASS BANK _France, December 10th._ The connection of Tamar the Hammerhead, who cut the Grass Bank out of the forest, with Timothy Gibbs, of Booligal, in New South Wales, may not be clear at first sight.

The only trees left, over miles of sloping downs, were the thickets around the villages and one row of walnut trees growing along the top of that steep grass embankment--the one remnant of Hammerhead's old orchard.

The generations, whose bad Latin gradually became French, still spoke of Hammerhead's old landmark--now situated in a large grass field--as "The Grass Bank." On the military maps some way behind the arterial system of red lines which stood for the German trenches--exactly as on a German map it stands for ours--was a shaded mark shaped like an elongated pea pod.