Grant Johnson went to Egmont Key on Sunday with his mother, his aunt and two grandparents, hoping to pick up a few shells and fly his kite.
Instead, the 9-year-old happened on a remarkable find: a 5-inch-long, 4 1/2-inch-wide shark tooth.
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The tooth’s white enamel had turned gray. There were a few chips from ages spent in the sea. But there was no denying it was a shark tooth.Megalodons could grow as long as 60 feet and heavy as 77 tons by some accounts – more than twice as long as a great white shark. They became extinct about 2-million years ago.
Man, that was one monster shark!
Thanks MJ Hopper.
I see the pair of sharks teeth… but what’s that in his hand?
lucky find
well at least he didnt find it in his leg, a lot of people are looking tasty to sharks these day….
Incredible find really, ‘shudder’.
When I was nine I went to the beach on a Sunday with my mother, my aunt and my two grandparents. Now, forty years later, I spend my time “replying” to threads on Dvorak.org. (Ironically, I live in my aunt’s basement.)
Oh, I should have added, keep in mind that this tooth was found in Russia. Now I’m not sure what the conversion table is; but a song that sells for a dollar on iTunes costs only about a nickel on a Russian site. So, probably, this tooth is only like an inch by a half-inch American.
[St. Petersburg, Florida, not Russia. – ed.]
It’s a good thing the headline wasn’t–
“Shark Finds Kid’s Tooth On Beach” 😛
It looks better than his tooth (teeth)
Its St Petersburg Fl, not Russia.
Check out these bad boys:
http://www.fossilien.de/seiten/haizaehne/megalodon.htm
With serrated edges on each tooth, talk about a MegaBad Megaladon…anything in the sea was bite-size to these hungry little fishies.
They became extinct about 2-million years ago? But I’ve been told the earth is only 7000 years old!
Sheee-it. All the kid needs is an old style catapult in his hip pocket.
A poster in usenet made a crack about “Life’s a bitch when you’re snack sized” (comment about penguins and Orcas). Mannnn, everything is snack size with one of those sharks around.