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elleng

(137,256 posts) Wed Jan 11, 2023, 06:34 PM Jan 2023

9-year-old girl finds Megalodon tooth over the holidays. [View all]

SOLOMONS, Md. — A 9-year-old girl from southern Maryland is making national headlines for what she found off the beaches of Calvert county.

Molly went looking for fossils on Christmas morning and came across a large tooth.

She took it to the Calvert Marine Museum where they confirmed it was a Megalodon tooth.

According to the natural history museum, Megalodons are an extinct species of shark said to be one of the biggest predators to have ever lived.

They went extinct about three and a half million years ago.

https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/9-year-old-girl-finds-megalodon-tooth-over-the-holidays?

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9-year-old girl finds Megalodon tooth over the holidays. [View all] elleng Jan 2023 OP

When I was a kid growing up in DC I remember hunting fossilized shark teeth AZSkiffyGeek Jan 2023 #1

We did too! I think it was in the clay cliffs on the western shore of the Chesapeake in Virginia Walleye Jan 2023 #5

I think mine eventually ended up in my mom's classroom AZSkiffyGeek Jan 2023 #6

WOW........... Lovie777 Jan 2023 #2

Thanks, elleng! PJMcK Jan 2023 #3

Wonderful! Love it when youngsters find neat things! paleotn Jan 2023 #4

So,... did the Megalodon brush its teeth regularly,... magicarpet Jan 2023 #7

Neither mega-rare nor mega-valuable, but very cool and worth keeping! nt Shermann Jan 2023 #8

VERY cool, so glad that stuff's here (near me) tho I've never hunted. elleng Jan 2023 #9

Megalodon Teeth are large IbogaProject Jan 2023 #10

Pic: sl8 Jan 2023 #11

Outstanding CrabbyAppleton Jan 2023 #13

While walking around my property the other day I happened across a rock that took my in2herbs Jan 2023 #12

Picture? CrabbyAppleton Jan 2023 #14

I will try but haven't been successful on other attempts. If/when successful I will notify in2herbs Jan 2023 #15

Your info suggests you should take care of the specimen you have. CrabbyAppleton Jan 2023 #16