Son Bryan, DIL Corinne, and their three girls scour the beach when they arrive there, looking for prehistoric shark teeth.
This one, found recently, is a rare find–as it is SO BIG and not broken. It is from a GRANDPARENT to the famous Megalodon shark, an apex predator back in its time. (There are folks here who can identify these shark teeth.)
Megalodons were HUGE sharks, kin maybe to today’s Great White Sharks. Here’s info from Britannica about the size of this shark:
“This data suggests that mature adult megalodons had a mean length of 10.2 metres (about 33.5 feet), the largest specimens measuring 17.9 metres (58.7 feet) long. Some scientists, however, contend that the largest forms may have measured up to 25 metres (82 feet) long. Studies estimate that adult body mass ranged from roughly 30 metric tons (1 metric ton = 1,000 kg; about 66,000 pounds) to more than 65 metric tons (about 143,000 pounds), adult females being larger (in both length and mass) than adult males” (https://www.britannica.com/animal/megalodon).
Here is another recent find that is smaller but in good condition:
The idea of the great Megalodon sharks has sparked a novel that, in turn, has sparked several movies called THE MEG. Wikipedia explains:
“Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror is a 1997 science fictionhorror novel by American author Steve Alten, and the first novel in the MEGseries. The novel follows the underwater adventures of a Navy deep-sea diver named Jonas Taylor.”
I will confessed I watched the movie–I stumbled into it one night. And it was interesting to view how the movie portrayed the bigness of the Megalodon shark.
Here’s a link to more info on the Megalodon from wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalodon
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