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'The find of a lifetime': 8-year-old boy discovers giant shark tooth in South Carolina
Phys.org ^ | 8/23/2022 | Natalie Neysa Alund

Posted on 08/23/2022 4:17:54 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: LibWhacker

And I get excited when I find an arrowhead.

Good going, kid!


41 posted on 08/23/2022 7:14:05 PM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: consult

I doubt it was planted to what end? Get on the internet?

I still excited when I find an arrowhead on our farm and I’m 60 years old and arrowheads are hardly rare but it’s fun to find them.

This find was a thrill for the kid who might develop a lifelong interest in archeology.


42 posted on 08/23/2022 7:20:47 PM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: NorthMountain
I remember my first trip to the Atlantic....Florida Keys. The breakers crashing against my ankles.

This is what I lived near in Oregon.

43 posted on 08/23/2022 7:43:55 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: JerseyDvl

Look 20 or 30 feet up the hillside in some old tree roots, where no one else bothers to look. That’s where you’ll find the good stuff...

‘Course, take my advice with a grain of salt. I never find anything. I’m lucky if I can find my keys in the morning. :-)


44 posted on 08/23/2022 7:48:40 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: gundog

That’s where rocks are turned into sand.


45 posted on 08/23/2022 8:34:33 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: muir_redwoods

“...an approximate age of such a find.”

H found it this month:)


46 posted on 08/23/2022 8:41:27 PM PDT by Cold Heart (Save The Grid, Phase Out EV's)
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To: LibWhacker

The shark had gold teeth.


47 posted on 08/23/2022 8:46:45 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: LibWhacker

Last year I found what I thought might be a fossilized egg. This year I finally caught up with an expert. He got pretty excited and felt it was probably an ancient crocodile egg. He was going to double check with a paleontologist but never got back to me.

It’s a fossilized egg or a really really good concretion.
Either way I mounted it on a cupped piece of brown black obsidian. looks impressive. I did put a picture of an ancient crocodile behind it, Kind of like those “serving suggestions” on a cereal box:)


48 posted on 08/23/2022 8:53:14 PM PDT by Cold Heart (Save The Grid, Phase Out EV's)
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To: Gene Eric; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks Gene Eric.

49 posted on 08/23/2022 8:56:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Annie Hall - Shark Scene | October 17, 2009 | bluestars
Annie Hall - Shark Scene | October 17, 2009 | bluestars

50 posted on 08/23/2022 8:59:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: neverbluffer

You are correct.

Low Country near the river intersects. I have many.

Dangerous Diving. Not me.

Get the She-Crab soup while there.


51 posted on 08/23/2022 9:24:35 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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52 posted on 08/23/2022 9:29:03 PM PDT by xp38
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To: LibWhacker

Used to find teeth like that in North Carolina, at Camp LeJeune USMC Base beaches in the 70’s................


53 posted on 08/24/2022 5:12:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: LibWhacker; Capt. Tom

Ping!.......................


54 posted on 08/24/2022 5:12:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: GMThrust

I hope you don’t have any kids...If you do, I feel sorry for them...For you, not so much...You’re not worth the time...


55 posted on 08/24/2022 6:02:49 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: GMThrust

If even read the excerpt, you would see the boy was participating in a fossil-hunting excursion near Summerville.

But no...You don’t need to read anything, do you???

You already know..........it all...


56 posted on 08/24/2022 6:08:44 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: JBW1949

I thought it was obvious by my questions, that I didn’t read the article. My comment wasn’t directed at the article. Your comment triggered my distain of over praising parents. Your response to another comment had a hint of that to me. Why parents do see that over praising children cripples them in adulthood. They grow up facing the smallest of challenges and can’t cope. They then rely on their parents and wind up living with them after college. And the kicker is that the parents are clueless as to what happened. I hope my further explanation clarifies my reaction. Good day.


57 posted on 08/24/2022 6:50:08 AM PDT by GMThrust
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To: LibWhacker

Premium Gravel Piles?

Plant.


58 posted on 08/24/2022 6:56:31 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: xp38
Yeah...too angry to allow climbing up on a beached whale. Plan B...is anyone here a marine demolitions expert?
59 posted on 08/24/2022 7:03:55 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: gundog

Another one for the “Think you used enough dynamite there Butch?” file.


60 posted on 08/24/2022 8:19:33 AM PDT by xp38
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