Posted on 01/25/2023 1:21:41 PM PST by Red Badger
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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.
MEGALADON PING!...............
‘Show And Tell’ Winner at his school!
Someone call a megalodontist, quick. They can save that tooth.
Biden: I lost that tooth in a fist fight with Corn Pop arguing over what FDR said on the telly about the Mexican American War.
And then I got back in my big truck and drove to my job as full professor and moonlighting as a lifeguard for little girls stoking my leg hair. Then I’d go home and shower with my daughter and smoke crack with my son.
Wow, she’s a bright kid! Saw the tooth and knew it wasn’t from a shark, so took it to the Calvert Marine Museum for experts to assess. Good for her! She has a bright future ahead.
Nice story. Thanks for posting it amid all the gloom and doom.
It was from a shark though, a giant prehistoric one.
tooth seems kinda small. musta been from a young Meg...
Thanks. I should have said it wasn’t from a modern shark.
—”Someone call a megalodontist, quick. They can save that tooth.”
It needs to be placed in milk if you want any chance to have placed back into service!
Also a winner for Larry Darrel and Darrel’s bag of fell and tell.
Megolodons were sharks 15m years ago and about 4x the size of today’s great whites.
Dang!
Been to Calvert Cliffs dozens of times.
Should have paid more attention!!
I know a guy down near Florida that finds these all the time....
Hey, megalodons would still be roaming the oceans of the world if it wasn’t for global warming.
Don’t forget, evolution is only a theory. Life does not come from non life.
Speaking of fossils:
Dragons—Did the Legends Come from the First “Fossil Hunters”?
https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/dragon-legends/dragons-legends-from-fossil-hunters/
My wife was in an rocks for jocks class at the University of South Carolina and she invited me to go on a field trip to a rock quarry south of Columbia to “look for fossils”.
20 minutes in, a kid found a 5 inch megalodon tooth... Just looking through gravel piles.
This made me think there are millions of them along the east coast.
Most of the mega-mega fauna from the age of the dinosaurs could not survive in our modern atmosphere.
Atmospheric pressure was 3x to 5x higher back then. Birds and flying dinosaurs evolved because it was easier to fly on the buoyant atmosphere. Those same dinosaurs could not fly in our atmosphere.
Beginner.
No fair! We’ve been to Calvert Cliffs a couple times and found a lot of little shark teeth. A megalodon tooth like that is the Holy Grail!
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