"What a find": girl discovers twelve centimeter long megalodon tooth on the beach
Created: 01/12/2023, 20:00
By: Sandra Barbara Furtner
A nine-year-old girl goes fossil-hunting and finds a tooth from an ancient shark on a Maryland beach.
She probably makes the coolest discovery of her life.
Nine-year-old Molly Sampson lives with her family near the Chesapeake Bay in the US state of Maryland.
As so often, she is also on the beach of Calvert Beach during the Christmas holidays to look for extraordinary things.
When she leaves the house in the morning, she says goodbye to her mother with the words: "I want to look for Meg", and when she comes home she proudly holds a five-inch tooth in her hands.
From a fish up to 20 meters long that lived more than 2.6 million years ago.
"What a find": girl discovers twelve centimeter long megalodon tooth on the beach
She makes the mega find in knee-deep water.
To be able to wade in them, the girl asked for waterproof waders especially for Christmas.
When she realizes what she has discovered, she starts screaming with excitement.
"It's something she's always wanted to find," her mother tells the
Daily Mail
.
Ever since she could walk, Molly has been searching for shark teeth, but this
Carcharodon megalodon
tooth is her greatest treasure yet.
"What a Find": Megalodon Tooth is coming to the Calvert Marine Museum
They bring the huge tooth to the Calvert Marine Museum.
The authenticity is also confirmed here.
And the museum's curator describes it as "a once-in-a-lifetime find."
Although Molly has now given the tooth to the paleontology department, she can always admire it there.
With her extraordinary discovery, Molly wants to inspire other young people to explore nature and their surroundings while showing how much fun such an adventure can be.
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The followers on Facebook are enthusiastic about the young girl and congratulate her on her extraordinary treasure.
Here is a selection of the comments.
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"What a smart and talented young woman!"
"Molly, this is really amazing!
Keep following your heart.
I wish you all the best on your path to becoming a paleontologist!”
"How fantastic!
Congratulations, Molly!”
"What a great find."
"99.9999999% of us will never make such a discovery.
So awesome!
Congratulation!"
"It is my heart's desire, a megalodon tooth like this!
I only found one that was split down the middle.
Congratulations!"
"Just imagine how big that shark was!"
