Posted on 01/25/2023 1:21:41 PM PST by Red Badger
VIDEO AT LINK...................
Jan. 24 (UPI) -- A Maryland 9-year-old searching for shark teeth on a beach made her largest discovery to date -- a 15 million-year-old megalodon tooth.
Molly Sampson was out searching for shark teeth on Calvert County Cliffs on Christmas Day when she found a megalodon tooth the size of her hand.
"I couldn't believe it, it was so exciting," Sampson told WJLA-TV. "I usually find little ones, I never thought I would find a big one like that."
Sampson took her discovery to the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomon's Island, where experts confirmed it was an ancient megalodon tooth.
"Based on where she found it on Calvert cliff, we estimate that it's about 15 million years old," said Stephen Godfrey, the museum's curator of paleontology.
Sampson said she hopes to become a paleontologist when she grows up.
Don’t they give these away at festivals in the gulf down in Carolina? I had the impression that they weren’t all that rare after seeing a documentary a few years ago.
In other news, I think I found a chondrite meteorite, and am arranging to get it checked by a scientist at the local observatory.
Thanks Red Badger.
Years ago I was working at an abandoned Air Force base in California all summer. One day a blue canopy was erected not too far off one of the roads to the site. After seeing it for several days I drove through the desert to see what was going on.
Turns out that several volunteers and an archaeologist were searching for dinosaur bones. After spending a week out in the area it was their last day with no luck.
A young boy out with his dad was digging around away from the others. I imagine they sent him over there to “explore” just to get him out from underfoot.
Well - he found a fossilized bone! The others started digging and soon another bone.
I was there as the boy was still there and they were continuing to uncover it - they thought it might be the entire skeleton (I forget what kind of dinosaur).
I told the kid “All the other kids will be talking about seeing the movie Jurassic Park over the summer. And here you are - living it!”
Regards,
I found one when I was 15 same place.
Also a 2 inch short fin mako tooth along with scads of smaller various teeth of other sharks
That beach is lousy with such things.
Wish I could go back some day.
It is beyond awesome but don’t walk barefoot there or you’ll find teeth the hard way.
Stop looking down and start looking IN the soil of the banks of the beach.
The Mako tooth was sitting there jutting out of the dirt just waiting for me to grab it.
We found many of them walking Myrtle beach in 1966.
I’ve found a few myself!................Especially when I was stationed in Camp Lejeune, NC !.......................
Great story!
Wonder if his Mom could stop him from digging up their whole yard after that? ;)
Kids these days.
Always gotta go around touching stuff.
smh.
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