Little Boy Finds Massive Ancient Shark Tooth Millions of Years Old

[Michie]

A six-year old sifting for shark teeth on a British beach found the four-inch long tooth of a megalodon, buried for at least three million years.

Sammy Shelton found the tooth with his dad Peter on Bawdsey Beach, at Gorleston-on-Sea in Suffolk; it’s a spot where many people come to look for different shells, sharks’ teeth, and fossils from recent times and those long gone.

Semi-professional fossil hunters with trowels and knee pads for kneeling in the mud told the father and son it’s nearly unheard of to find megalodon teeth in Great Britain, despite the fact they have been found nearly everywhere on Earth.

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Little Boy Finds Massive Ancient Shark Tooth Millions of Years Old

 

[DiscipleOfChrist85]

Well three million years ago great Britain was a plain not an island.

 

[SkovandOfMitzae]

Well three million years ago great Britain was a plain not an island.

I was under the impression that sea levels were higher during the Pliocene? It was not until sometime after the Cretaceous that water levels begin to lower. It’s why the the western interior seaway was still separating Laramidia and Appalachia.