Fossil Hunter Discovers Egalodon Molar

[Still Waters]

A fossil hunter was stunned to stumble across an extraordinarily rare shark's tooth that could be up to 10 million years old.

Giancarlo Thomae was scouring river banks in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains in California Thursday when he made the astonishing discovery.

It was a molar from a Megalodon, a gigantic 60-foot great white shark that is now extinct but was at its time one of the world's largest and most powerful predators.

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[Jack_of_Blades]

Not sure how to feel about this article. First of all: sharks don't have molars. Also C. megalodon teeth aren't that rare.

Unless we are talking about the one's over 6 inches but the article doesn't even talk about it's size. Sure they're a cool find

for an amateur fossil hunter but it's not like stumbling across a sub-human fossil or discovering a new species of ancient

amphibian (like a local boy did a few years back).

[SameerPrehistorica]

The title says 'Egalodon'. It should be changed. And Megalodon and Great white shark are not same but still some people do talk about it that way.