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To: smokingfrog
Found some fossils one time in a spring that sort of looked like teeth, but have no idea what kind of critter they might have come from. Any idea?

Here's a really good photo:


36 posted on 01/08/2012 6:40:14 PM PST by aruanan
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To: aruanan
Nature's way of saying: "Don't touch".

You might kill it, but don't try to negotiate with it.

/johnny

38 posted on 01/08/2012 6:43:16 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: aruanan; JRandomFreeper

I know what shark teeth look like. These were more like big molars. Could have been from any number of large mammals, I would imagine.


42 posted on 01/08/2012 6:50:30 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> - - -)
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To: aruanan

These are the teeth of the largest predatory shark that ever lived....kindred to the extant great white shark.....genus Megalodon. It was 10 times the size of todays largest great white shark.


47 posted on 01/08/2012 7:00:40 PM PST by Texas Songwriter (Ia)
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To: aruanan

I go sharks tooth diving off the beach, trying to find some of those. Have several hundred much smaller ones. Found parts of a whale bone but nothing big.


48 posted on 01/08/2012 7:04:10 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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