SYDNEY: Beachcombers normally find shells, broken glasses and pebbles on the shores but in the United States, they certainly did not expect to find a shark tooth.
North Topsail Beach in North Carolina is known to be a good spot to find relics from extinct marine life like the megalodon, although rain and tides from Hurricane Joaquin has brought them ashore in record numbers since October.
NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher fossil experts say the biggest of the treasures found are Megalodon teeth, which are millions of years old.
That, dear friends, is a Megalodon, an ancient ancestor of the modern day great white shark which roamed the waters somewhere between 15 million and 5 million years ago, and is the size of A SMALL BUS.
“Oh my God, I felt like I was a lottery victor or something”, Denny Bland, who found Megalodon’s teeth, told WITN.
The experts from the museum said that the sizes of sharks today are determined by comparing their teeth with their body size. Beachgoers across the area have been stumbling upon giant fossilized teeth belonging to a prehistoric shark called the Megaladon, which clocked in at an estimated 60 feet long.
Super-sized shark teeth bigger than the size of the average human hand have washed up on beaches in North Carolina recently shocking locals.
