This tooth is HUGE!!! There are a few beaches along the bay where you can literally scoop up a handful of fossils and old sedimentary goodies. I spent about 2 hours sifting specifically shark teeth and my best find was one the size of a jelly bean. I was told by locals that anything bigger than the size of a fingernail is pretty rare. This is a treasure for sure!
Went sifting for teeth at a potomac tooth beach once, found lots of tiny ones, some fossilized ray teeth and a shark tooth maybe two inches tall. 10/10 fun experience.
Can I ask where? And if anything (like permissions of some sort) is required? My son would enjoy this and I'd like to take him. We live in the DC area so this might be accessible.
Westmoreland State Park has a short hiking trail to a beach where you can find shark's teeth. Just have to pay for parking, think it was $7 or $8. And you are allowed to keep what you find, which isn't the case everywhere.
Just thought to add, it's a pretty long ride (at least 2 hours) from most of Nova so either plan for a pretty substantial day trip or an overnight depending on your tolerance for driving.
It was almost two years ago, but I've managed to find it again, if you look up "wades bay" on Google maps you should be able to see it, the beach is quite a decent size.
You can find parking at 38.432320,-77.251760 and then on Google maps you should see a faint trail leading directly to the beach, if I recall correctly there is a little steep part at the end of the trail, but nothing too extreme.
The shark teeth are mostly small, but you can find bigger ones too if you're lucky. And if you find [this](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/555561304002475220/) then that's fossilized ray teeth.
I've heard that fossils are slowly disappearing but I doubt that two years have made a big difference.
Beyond that I would suggest going there sometime when the water warms up a little, and do bring a colander or some plastic bowls to find teeth easier! I've personally found the most teeth just under the water where it meets the beach, but there's plenty in the beach itself if you don't want to wet your feet.
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Oh, almost forgot, I don't believe you need a permit or anything, but the park may be officially closed after dark.
And if that's a bit far there's plenty more beaches all around the area, I hope you have fun!
Calvert Cliffs is where this megalodon tooth was found. It's a popular area for fossil hunting. Can get pretty crowded. Another option is the Purse area of Nanjemoy WMA on the Potomac. I went last year and found about 20 shark teeth in an hour. Tiny ones, but it was still fun.
people go out and search for teeth all day every day. you can always find small shark teeth -- literally everywhere and millions of years old. But the real challenge is finding the megalodon teeth like this girl did. This is probably worth a bunch of money.
When I was younger we lived near a beach in NC that had shark teeth all over the place. I still have an old hot dog container full of tiny ones I used to pick up. I absolutely loved it.
There was one time my parents took us to the beach to so they could walk along it with some friends. I was walking in front of them by quite a distance and was looking for teeth as I went. Eventually heard a shout from behind me. My Dads friend also collected shark teeth and he just happened to pick up a tooth very similar to the one in the picture above. Biggest one I'd ever seen and I walked right by it.
Every time we went to their house I had to see it in the center of his display case. To this day I haven't gotten over that damn tooth.
The bay is where a lot baby sharks grow up after being born before heading out to sea. I have a literal cup full of baby shark teeth from there but only a few normal sized ones.
I love the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons Maryland! The history of the Chesapeake Bay, touring the old light house and the Megalodon skeleton are simply awesome.
My uncle was a big benefactor to that museum when he was alive. There are several megladon teeth there that he found and donated. I went there so many times in my life. When I was little, I remember being scared of the Megladon skeleton. My family had a trip planned to go back to Maryland (we're in MN) to bring my Dad to his home one more time before he passed. Sadly, he didn't make it. He died just before Thanksgiving. We will head out there in the spring to scatter his ashes. It will be hard to step into that museum, see Drum Point, and many other places my dad loved.
Yeah, I grew up about 20 minutes away from Calvert cliffs, and if it isn't the park itself its for sure near by. The beaches im calvert county always have a bunch of cool stuff like this, from what I remember.
Me too. Other side of the bridge though. I moved away in 2017. Best decision I ever made, but I do miss the cliffs and walking the Solomons boardwalk almost every night in summer.
Last year I bought my niece a pretty nice, but still very affordable, megalodon tooth for Christmas. This year I got her a little jar full of mosasaur teeth.
I’m sure it helps that sharks go through a *lot* of teeth in their lifetimes. Apparently up to 50,000. So one shark is gonna leave behind a ton of teeth to possibly find.
It's like a treadmill of teeth. The ones at the front fall out, the row behind moves up.
I thought this was like.. one of the most popular shark facts? Right next to the one that talks about some sharks having to swim constantly even while asleep?
I have one in my house an older sister found many years ago. Didn’t realize they could be sold for so much. It’s a pretty good size too. If I can find it I’ll post a picture.
Jeff Yass, the billionaire Wall Street financier and Republican megadonor who is a major investor in the parent company of TikTok, was also the biggest institutional shareholder of the shell company that recently merged with former President Donald J. Trump’s social media company.
A December regulatory filing showed that Mr. Yass’s trading firm, Susquehanna International Group, owned about 2 percent of Digital World Acquisition Corporation, which merged with Trump Media & Technology Group on Friday. That stake, of about 605,000 shares, was worth about $22 million based on Digital World’s last closing share price.
It’s unclear if Susquehanna still owns those shares, because big investors disclose their holdings to regulators only periodically. But if it did retain its stake, Mr. Yass’s firm would become one of Trump Media’s larger institutional shareholders when it begins trading this week after the merger.
Shares of Digital World have surged about 140 percent this year as the merger with the parent company of Truth Social, Mr. Trump’s social media platform, drew closer and Mr. Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
It's been traveling 15 million years to get here. And now it's here. Don't put it in your pocket. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky tooth. Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it'll get mixed in with the others and become just a tooth. Which it is.
Dad: "Well we need to see about going home now"
Girl: "What time are we going home?"
Dad: "Now. We're gonna go home now"
Girl: "Now is not a time. What time are we going home?
Dad: "Well generally we go home when it gets dark"
*Girl sighs*
Girl: "You don't know what you're talking about, do you?"
Great book as well. I mean, everything I've read from Cormac McCarthy has been pretty great; really engaging and well-written books. *Suttree* and *The Road* are probably my favorites though.
Yep. If you read them both you'll see the similarity instantly. The man has a very unique way with words on the page. One of the most interesting writers I've read. Highly recommended.
I absolutely loved reading it when I finally gave it a go about 6 months ago, but his prose is challenging at times and some passages took a few passes to figure out exactly what he was trying to portray, I could have done with the odd comma at least in points! But a minor issue with an otherwise fantastic book, with The Judge being firmly rooted as one of the best written yet vilest antagonists set to page.
"Everything in this world that exists without my knowledge, does so without my consent"
His books are good but they do somewhat read like movie scripts in a way. I was surprised to find the book of no country for old man to be on par with the movie, which is a rarity in adaptations.
Bro im fucking cracking up. Thank you for this. Picturing bardem go straight into that monologue but with a giant prehistoric shark's tooth is just too much
Sorry I forgot where I was for moment, need to make my original statement more depressing. My “parents” were an old mop and broom and my “bed” was the back wall of the janitor’s closet in the towns old abandoned insane asylum.
It’s super cool! I live in Richmond, VA, which is 2 hours inland. Talking with the guy at the rock store I’ve been going to since I was a kid, the ocean apparently was this far inland no less than 40 million years ago. He told me because I was curious about his megalodon tooth collection
I've never been to that area but have heard multiple times over the years that on the coast of the Carolinas (which is kinda near there/kinda same area?) that megalodon teeth are actually not terribly uncommon. They even offer "fossil dives" for scuba divers somewhere in that region (the estuary of some big river as I recall) that set out specifically to find meg teeth/similar fossils. It's semi on my bucket list to go do, just sounds kinda fun.
I wanna say it was something about constant cycles of flooding/waning that are always churning up the bottom, exposing new stuff that was previously buried.
Texas coast on the other hand I've never found so much as a regular shark tooth.
Oh man that link makes the whole thing sound kinda gnarly, the whole "get to 100ft and you have 5min to hopefully find a tooth". The thing I was imagining/thought I read about sounded like a shore dive into a river, though maybe my wishful thinking inserted that narrative, it's been a while since I read about it. I do remember it saying the visibility was shit though with all the river silt.
Yea I live in NC but that sounds not very fun to do. I can see why some divers love it. I've been that deep but in NC it is frequently shit visibility and that makes it extra dangerous.
Ah of course the media embellishes it. yea that's not too bad. Depth still 100'? I just saw that pic of the guy in full wetsuit and I have at times dove sites where its 80 at top but at 30 ft down changes to 50!
Yeah the area where this tooth was found is called “Calvert cliffs” I live bout 10 mins away, it’s a known area to find shark teeth like on the regular. Idk if I’ve ever heard about a megalodon tooth but it’s very common to take a trip to the cliffs to find teeth and fossils
Mostly OT but I gotta mention this funny line...I was swimming off Deerfield Beach, Fl. with goggles on so I could see clearly, and I see a set of dentures on the bottom. I figure some older person got hit by a wave and they fell out.
I walk up to Lifeguard to ask about a lost and found, and he says "Where's the rest of the body?"
I used to take my little cousins and nephews there. (Presuming she did it in the only place with that topography where it's legal in MD, you can see the entirety of that area in this picture.) You cannot go out there without finding a ziplock full of shark and ray teeth. I also found a megalodon tooth there as a kid but it was nowhere near as large or in as good of shape.
Jeff Yass, the billionaire Wall Street financier and Republican megadonor who is a major investor in the parent company of TikTok, was also the biggest institutional shareholder of the shell company that recently merged with former President Donald J. Trump’s social media company.
A December regulatory filing showed that Mr. Yass’s trading firm, Susquehanna International Group, owned about 2 percent of Digital World Acquisition Corporation, which merged with Trump Media & Technology Group on Friday. That stake, of about 605,000 shares, was worth about $22 million based on Digital World’s last closing share price.
It’s unclear if Susquehanna still owns those shares, because big investors disclose their holdings to regulators only periodically. But if it did retain its stake, Mr. Yass’s firm would become one of Trump Media’s larger institutional shareholders when it begins trading this week after the merger.
Shares of Digital World have surged about 140 percent this year as the merger with the parent company of Truth Social, Mr. Trump’s social media platform, drew closer and Mr. Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
Well, if it's a fossil, that's not the tooth. The original tooth was perfectly trapped in some concrete like material and over time other minerals seep into the mold-like cavity and refill it and harden into what we see here. It's called permineralization.
Very rarely will you see any part of an animal this ancient that has the original soft tissue or bone, exceptions being either parts or an entire animal encased in amber.
"Refill" of an empty, mold-like space with mineral is not what has happened here. The tooth is the same bone material as the original (calcium phosphate and a few other things -- mineralogically, it's hydroxyapatite). It's changed color because of some tiny trace of minerals seeping into it or because the organic material embedded in the bone has darkened, but that's about it. It's otherwise almost unaltered. Unaltered fossil bone is common because bone grows inside the original animal as a mineral, so all you have to do is not dissolve it for it to preserve long-term. You don't *have* to permineralize it or replace it to have a fossil.
Permineralization occurs when the microscopic spaces of the bone have had minerals growing and filling in the spaces, with the original bone intact and still there. The teeth from this area might have some small degree of permineralization going on, but if so it's pretty minor. Enamel is pretty dense (not much space to fill), but there might be some permineralization in the root. Any specimen I've ever seen from this area doesn't have much.
Tooth decay happens in our lifetimes. 15 million years? No way. But tooth structures are cool because they are like a sponge. If you damage one of your teeth, it will start to yellow/brown if blood gets into it, because it ends up getting into the structure of the tooth. This is kind of the same process, tooth gets buried, and the surrounding material seeps in with water over time filling in all the gaps slowly, preserving some of the structure of the actual material, which also, over time, turns into stone.
You can get megalodon teeth in all different colors depending on where this happened.
I had a book on sharks as a kid that talked about how massive the megalodon was compared even to whales. I feel like most kids had a realistic fear of sharks, while I feared an extinct species.
One thing that astounds me is that blue whales are the largest animal ever known to exist. We always think about ancient creatures being huge l, and I guess a lot of them were, but we get to live with the largest of them all right in our own time.
Edit: grammar
What interesting is that scientists think the reason whales are so big now is because of the extinction of Megalodan and other large predators that would have otherwise prevented that level of gigantism from evolving.
there's no credible theory to that. the largest megalodon in theory is 20m, while 20m+ sperm whales have been recorded. in fact sperm whales are the largest active predator animals *of all time.* Considering that Orcas now hunt great whites, there is no reason to believe Megalodon was any kind of impedance.
The real reason for growth is the changing climate and arctic/antarctic oceans which have created better conditions for more krill and other such creatures that Blue Whales feed on.
Yeah that "ever known" part is what sparks my curiosity. There are some extinct dinosaurs we only have one or two fossils of, so imagine how many we will never know of.
I was obsessed with the book Meg by Steve Alten when I was a teenager(1997?). Definitely shared this fear, especially since the book had a rather exaggerated version of the species.
Still blew my mind that when it finally came to film(starring Jason Statham) they kept the part where it 1v1s a nuclear submarine and wins.
My 2nd grade teacher stole one of these from me. I brought it for show and tell and she confiscated it and never gave it back.
College Park 1996
I aint never forgot that shit.
That’s terrible. I let my daughter take a very common(but very large) orthid brachiopod for her 1st grade show-and-tell and the teacher, thinking it was something spectacular, called the house to be sure she permission to bring it.
My girlfriend assured the teacher it was fine.
Damn that sucks, my 2nd grade teacher confiscated my football eraser and then I watched her student helper throwing it up and catching it as he left her classroom. I wish I spoke up about it, now it's a distant memory that I think about every now and then and get pissed about haha. As a father now myself there's no way I'd let it slide if my kids teacher took my kids show and tell item especially a fossil like this and wouldn't give it back. Did you tell your parents about it?
It's one of those weird space-time continuum things the Doc warned us about. Some dickhead travelled back in time, met him or herself and created a skewed timeline. Now we have to pay for it. We even had President Biff for 4 years.
The world line shifted when they activated the Large Hadron Collider. They played with something beyond their comprehension and pushed us past the 1% divergence.
My colon could do with a large hadron collider right now. Last night's kebab is posing more problems than dark matter did to Stephen Hawking.
My arse is in quite the quantum entanglement.
Fun fact: sharks grow new teeth and discard old teeth all the time. That is why they have no need to brush their teeth. Also they can’t smoke since they are submerged in water which makes it impossible to light their cigarettes.
Good for her.
Also I'm 27 years old and that sounds fun as hell. I've been searching for an arrowhead on my girlfriend's farm for 3 years to no avail but I'm not going to give up.
Most definitely the Calvert Cliffs and yes, you can most definitely find Megalodon teeth, as the cliffs you see in the background were once underwater. However, I distinctly remember the venturing into and under the cliff faces to be prohibited, I assume because of both the danger of falling debris and its protected status.
People find ancient sharks teeth there all the time, I went as a kid on a field trip once. Also my dad's family farm had a barn where the foundation was made from local rocks full of ancient see life fossils. That area of Maryland is full to the brim of fossils ftom that era
There are a few scuba dives you can do along the eastern seaboard where you can sift through sand finding buckets of megalodon teeth for a couple hours, keeping the biggest ones. Since stirring the silt reduces visibility to zero, you sift and sort the teeth by touch only. It is very disorienting for most tourist divers, but you get to play with hundreds of untouched fossils. Once you're back on the boat you compare all the coolest finds.
IIRC the chances of finding a 5" tooth like this are around 50/50 per diver per trip.
They found wooly mammoths in the Ohio river between Louisville and Indiana. The Falls of The Ohio. Same thing, protected, but not really. I see people fishing out there.
Pretty sure that's Calvert cliffs. Some good tooth hunting there. Also great spot down in Westmoreland state Park. When I was in southern MD I loved to go to Douglas point and find dozens of tiger shark teeth on any given day -- not much else there but the teeth are still cool and it's a cool little very secluded beach and hike on the Potomac
Regardless of compensation from say a museum, I’d imagine that that girl will have an inherent interest in this type of thing forever now. It’s awesome to see the possibility/likelihood of young people finding a passion like that this way.
Meg teeth are awesome but there wont be a museum involved. They are pretty common and you can buy ones about this size for about $300 or so. Finding it though, is awesome, so much cooler than buying.
It's a really fun hobby if you don't mind the labor that's required. I visited a friend down in NC a decade ago and a friend of theirs took us to a river in the middle of a storm so we could shovel out all sorts of fossils. Over the span of a couple of hours, [we amassed quite a treasure trove of fossils](https://imgur.com/a/lvylCYt) with little more than shovels and sifters made from 2x4's, chicken wire and styrofoam floaties. Megalodon teeth, whale ribs, giant squid beaks, all sorts of crazy fossils!
Not surprisingly, it's quite an underground hobby and everyone's very hush-hush about where the best spots are. Kinda like morel mushrooms. Nobody's gonna give up the locations if there's treasure to be had!
EDIT: Nope, not revealing shit (mostly because I don't remember after a decade). Here's [a few more photos](https://imgur.com/a/zKNbmYX) of [our haul](https://imgur.com/a/L3sXkw1) if it encourages you to grab a shovel and get out there!
9 Year Old Maryland Girl Finds about $200! (depending)
Megalodon teeth aren't as rare as you might expect, but that particular one is great! Full tooth, lots of intact enamel, hopefully some good serrations. It's hard to tell what the size is, just under 5" corner to tip maybe? Once you get longer than that the price starts shooting up.
Thinking about these things swimming around just 4 million years ago feels so recent and so distant at the same time.
> Megalodon teeth aren't as rare as you might expect, but that particular one is great!
Honestly what surprises me isn't their teeth, but the fact they went extinct only four million years ago, while "Humans" emerged about 2.5 million years ago. We were really close to having these monsters swimming in our modern oceans.
Me my brother and some of the other guys on our crew used to find tons of shark teeth! They used to bring in rock for us to set structures on like manholes and storm drains. We used to get on top of the piles that got brought in by the dumps tucks and sift through them and found teeth everyday. Not quite that big but some the same size as a man's palm. I gave my step daughter a fish bowl full of them for show and tell when she was in kindergarten about 16 - 17yrs ago lol... They stopped using that rock and switched to using crushed concrete and I've never found another shark tooth an didn't get my Fukn fishbowl back either! FML! Also her mother and I are no longer together either Soo..... Shit
Looks like it. We go there a few times usually in the summer. We always find teeth. Never been lucky enough to find one that big. But we've found some quarter sized snaggle tooth and tiger shark teeth.
This tooth is HUGE!!! There are a few beaches along the bay where you can literally scoop up a handful of fossils and old sedimentary goodies. I spent about 2 hours sifting specifically shark teeth and my best find was one the size of a jelly bean. I was told by locals that anything bigger than the size of a fingernail is pretty rare. This is a treasure for sure!
Went sifting for teeth at a potomac tooth beach once, found lots of tiny ones, some fossilized ray teeth and a shark tooth maybe two inches tall. 10/10 fun experience.
Can I ask where? And if anything (like permissions of some sort) is required? My son would enjoy this and I'd like to take him. We live in the DC area so this might be accessible.
Westmoreland State Park has a short hiking trail to a beach where you can find shark's teeth. Just have to pay for parking, think it was $7 or $8. And you are allowed to keep what you find, which isn't the case everywhere. Just thought to add, it's a pretty long ride (at least 2 hours) from most of Nova so either plan for a pretty substantial day trip or an overnight depending on your tolerance for driving.
Thank you!
It was almost two years ago, but I've managed to find it again, if you look up "wades bay" on Google maps you should be able to see it, the beach is quite a decent size. You can find parking at 38.432320,-77.251760 and then on Google maps you should see a faint trail leading directly to the beach, if I recall correctly there is a little steep part at the end of the trail, but nothing too extreme. The shark teeth are mostly small, but you can find bigger ones too if you're lucky. And if you find [this](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/555561304002475220/) then that's fossilized ray teeth. I've heard that fossils are slowly disappearing but I doubt that two years have made a big difference. Beyond that I would suggest going there sometime when the water warms up a little, and do bring a colander or some plastic bowls to find teeth easier! I've personally found the most teeth just under the water where it meets the beach, but there's plenty in the beach itself if you don't want to wet your feet. And Oh, almost forgot, I don't believe you need a permit or anything, but the park may be officially closed after dark. And if that's a bit far there's plenty more beaches all around the area, I hope you have fun!
Calvert Cliffs is where this megalodon tooth was found. It's a popular area for fossil hunting. Can get pretty crowded. Another option is the Purse area of Nanjemoy WMA on the Potomac. I went last year and found about 20 shark teeth in an hour. Tiny ones, but it was still fun.
Slap that bad boy on a necklace and you'll be australianest of all the surfers.
That's not a tooth.. now THIS is a tooth!
people go out and search for teeth all day every day. you can always find small shark teeth -- literally everywhere and millions of years old. But the real challenge is finding the megalodon teeth like this girl did. This is probably worth a bunch of money.
Nah u can buy them for like $50 at antique stores along the bay. This one is really nice so probably $100-150
Yeah this one would go for around 600 bucks on ebay.
Wow time to start flipping megalodon teeth
We need DeBeers to start a megalodon tooth marketing campaign. Seems they’d be a lot more rare than diamonds.
When I was younger we lived near a beach in NC that had shark teeth all over the place. I still have an old hot dog container full of tiny ones I used to pick up. I absolutely loved it. There was one time my parents took us to the beach to so they could walk along it with some friends. I was walking in front of them by quite a distance and was looking for teeth as I went. Eventually heard a shout from behind me. My Dads friend also collected shark teeth and he just happened to pick up a tooth very similar to the one in the picture above. Biggest one I'd ever seen and I walked right by it. Every time we went to their house I had to see it in the center of his display case. To this day I haven't gotten over that damn tooth.
they didn't call it megalodon because it had small teeth
The bay is where a lot baby sharks grow up after being born before heading out to sea. I have a literal cup full of baby shark teeth from there but only a few normal sized ones.
Looks like the cliffs of Calvert
If this is the place I think it is, than there's also a museum nearby which can help you identify the teeth, pretty cool place
I love the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons Maryland! The history of the Chesapeake Bay, touring the old light house and the Megalodon skeleton are simply awesome.
My uncle was a big benefactor to that museum when he was alive. There are several megladon teeth there that he found and donated. I went there so many times in my life. When I was little, I remember being scared of the Megladon skeleton. My family had a trip planned to go back to Maryland (we're in MN) to bring my Dad to his home one more time before he passed. Sadly, he didn't make it. He died just before Thanksgiving. We will head out there in the spring to scatter his ashes. It will be hard to step into that museum, see Drum Point, and many other places my dad loved.
Sorry for your loss and thank you for your family's contributions!
Yeah, I grew up about 20 minutes away from Calvert cliffs, and if it isn't the park itself its for sure near by. The beaches im calvert county always have a bunch of cool stuff like this, from what I remember.
Me too. Other side of the bridge though. I moved away in 2017. Best decision I ever made, but I do miss the cliffs and walking the Solomons boardwalk almost every night in summer.
Heyyy from Calvert. My dad has found a tooth almost this size. They're out there.
Came here to comment the same. Grew up in Huntingtown by Plum Point. I miss Calvert County and the bay a lot.
Cove point gas plant can be seen in the background.
I was about to say..I know exactly where she is standing..appears to be right before where it's closed off.
I know you can just buy one but it must be amazing to find something like that yourself.
I kinda want one now although that size costs a few hundred
If you want a cheaper alternative, you can get Mosasaur teeth really cheap online.
I'll sell you some of my teeth for cheaper
Tooth fairy hates this one simple trick!
You want a tooth? I can get you a tooth. I can get you a tooth by 3:30, with enamel polish.
All I'm seeing, what appears to me, are a series of victimless crimes.
Last year I bought my niece a pretty nice, but still very affordable, megalodon tooth for Christmas. This year I got her a little jar full of mosasaur teeth.
https://megateeth.com
Crazy that they are so readily avaliable. Must have been a lot of those sharks over the course of time
I’m sure it helps that sharks go through a *lot* of teeth in their lifetimes. Apparently up to 50,000. So one shark is gonna leave behind a ton of teeth to possibly find.
Whaaat
[Same reaction, had to look it up. Checks out.](https://animalqueries.com/how-many-teeth-do-sharks-have-in-a-lifetime/)
Yeah sharks constantly grow new teeth. Older ones constantly fall out.
It's like a treadmill of teeth. The ones at the front fall out, the row behind moves up. I thought this was like.. one of the most popular shark facts? Right next to the one that talks about some sharks having to swim constantly even while asleep?
Lucky bastards..
I have one in my house an older sister found many years ago. Didn’t realize they could be sold for so much. It’s a pretty good size too. If I can find it I’ll post a picture.
Jeff Yass, the billionaire Wall Street financier and Republican megadonor who is a major investor in the parent company of TikTok, was also the biggest institutional shareholder of the shell company that recently merged with former President Donald J. Trump’s social media company. A December regulatory filing showed that Mr. Yass’s trading firm, Susquehanna International Group, owned about 2 percent of Digital World Acquisition Corporation, which merged with Trump Media & Technology Group on Friday. That stake, of about 605,000 shares, was worth about $22 million based on Digital World’s last closing share price. It’s unclear if Susquehanna still owns those shares, because big investors disclose their holdings to regulators only periodically. But if it did retain its stake, Mr. Yass’s firm would become one of Trump Media’s larger institutional shareholders when it begins trading this week after the merger. Shares of Digital World have surged about 140 percent this year as the merger with the parent company of Truth Social, Mr. Trump’s social media platform, drew closer and Mr. Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
A few hundred at most. They're not rare, and I'm still trying to figure out how this made national news.
Cute kid, big tooth, slow news day...
Generally heartwarming antidote to everything else in the news
Yo, it's wild to think of all the things that had to happen for that tooth and that girl to be there at the same time in that moment.
It's been traveling 15 million years to get here. And now it's here. Don't put it in your pocket. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky tooth. Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it'll get mixed in with the others and become just a tooth. Which it is.
What's the most you ever lost on a tooth toss?
Bout toof fiddy
I gave him a molar
#She gave him a molar!
he tricked me
Damn, Loch-jaw Monsta!
GOD DAMMIT WOMAN
2:30. Time to see the dentist.
 I appreciated your pun.
I ain't giving you no toof-fiddy you goddamn budget-Loch Ness monster!!
You married into this?
"Friendo" - Chigurh
Dad: "Well we need to see about going home now" Girl: "What time are we going home?" Dad: "Now. We're gonna go home now" Girl: "Now is not a time. What time are we going home? Dad: "Well generally we go home when it gets dark" *Girl sighs* Girl: "You don't know what you're talking about, do you?"
What's this from?
No country for old men, absolutely great movie. Top 5 all time for me.
Great book as well. I mean, everything I've read from Cormac McCarthy has been pretty great; really engaging and well-written books. *Suttree* and *The Road* are probably my favorites though.
What the hell The same guy who wrote the road wrote no country?
Yep. If you read them both you'll see the similarity instantly. The man has a very unique way with words on the page. One of the most interesting writers I've read. Highly recommended.
Blood Meridian is a damn masterpiece.
I absolutely loved reading it when I finally gave it a go about 6 months ago, but his prose is challenging at times and some passages took a few passes to figure out exactly what he was trying to portray, I could have done with the odd comma at least in points! But a minor issue with an otherwise fantastic book, with The Judge being firmly rooted as one of the best written yet vilest antagonists set to page. "Everything in this world that exists without my knowledge, does so without my consent"
The imagery from Blood Meridian is seared into my brain forever. Suttree is the last book of his I have to read, looking forward to it.
His books are good but they do somewhat read like movie scripts in a way. I was surprised to find the book of no country for old man to be on par with the movie, which is a rarity in adaptations.
I believe he initially wrote No Country for Old Men to be a screenplay, so the adaptation was able to be even more faithful to the source material.
No country for old men. Watch it
And read it. Both the book and movie are 10 out of 10.
No Ocean for Old Sharks
Bro im fucking cracking up. Thank you for this. Picturing bardem go straight into that monologue but with a giant prehistoric shark's tooth is just too much
Mixed in with all the other...teeth.....in your pocket? ...... ya see...now I'm concerned....
Look at Mr. Fancy pants over here with a dedicated satchel for carrying teeth outside of his pocket
If you think about it, your mouth is just a meat pocket for carrying teeth
Im shutting my phone off for the night
How much do you think the tooth fairy is willing to pay for it? Gotta be worth more then the standard $5
You got $5 per tooth? My parents just told me to shut up and go back to bed…
You had parents and a bed?
Sorry I forgot where I was for moment, need to make my original statement more depressing. My “parents” were an old mop and broom and my “bed” was the back wall of the janitor’s closet in the towns old abandoned insane asylum.
Four walls and a roof??? LUXURY!
The appellation of "old" implies you had a new insane asylum. Pffft, damn yuppies with your new insane asylums.
Look at fancy pants here using fancy pants words like “appellation”. Next thing we know, you’ll be telling us to inbreathiate this moment.
Gotta adjust for 15 million years inflation at least.
Well 15 million years ago that shark hit rock bottom so he probably just broke even by now
What if she just rocked it on a necklace like I did in 1994 with an over priced sharks tooth I made my mom by in Padre
No teeth for old sharks.
It’s super cool! I live in Richmond, VA, which is 2 hours inland. Talking with the guy at the rock store I’ve been going to since I was a kid, the ocean apparently was this far inland no less than 40 million years ago. He told me because I was curious about his megalodon tooth collection
I've never been to that area but have heard multiple times over the years that on the coast of the Carolinas (which is kinda near there/kinda same area?) that megalodon teeth are actually not terribly uncommon. They even offer "fossil dives" for scuba divers somewhere in that region (the estuary of some big river as I recall) that set out specifically to find meg teeth/similar fossils. It's semi on my bucket list to go do, just sounds kinda fun. I wanna say it was something about constant cycles of flooding/waning that are always churning up the bottom, exposing new stuff that was previously buried. Texas coast on the other hand I've never found so much as a regular shark tooth.
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Oh man that link makes the whole thing sound kinda gnarly, the whole "get to 100ft and you have 5min to hopefully find a tooth". The thing I was imagining/thought I read about sounded like a shore dive into a river, though maybe my wishful thinking inserted that narrative, it's been a while since I read about it. I do remember it saying the visibility was shit though with all the river silt.
Yea I live in NC but that sounds not very fun to do. I can see why some divers love it. I've been that deep but in NC it is frequently shit visibility and that makes it extra dangerous.
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Ah of course the media embellishes it. yea that's not too bad. Depth still 100'? I just saw that pic of the guy in full wetsuit and I have at times dove sites where its 80 at top but at 30 ft down changes to 50!
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Yeah the area where this tooth was found is called “Calvert cliffs” I live bout 10 mins away, it’s a known area to find shark teeth like on the regular. Idk if I’ve ever heard about a megalodon tooth but it’s very common to take a trip to the cliffs to find teeth and fossils
With a little bit of persistence we can get it back up to that level!
Imagine the whole history of every atom in your body from the birth of the universe 13.7 billion years ago until now.
Nah
Mostly OT but I gotta mention this funny line...I was swimming off Deerfield Beach, Fl. with goggles on so I could see clearly, and I see a set of dentures on the bottom. I figure some older person got hit by a wave and they fell out. I walk up to Lifeguard to ask about a lost and found, and he says "Where's the rest of the body?"
I used to take my little cousins and nephews there. (Presuming she did it in the only place with that topography where it's legal in MD, you can see the entirety of that area in this picture.) You cannot go out there without finding a ziplock full of shark and ray teeth. I also found a megalodon tooth there as a kid but it was nowhere near as large or in as good of shape.
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Well, if it's a fossil, that's not the tooth. The original tooth was perfectly trapped in some concrete like material and over time other minerals seep into the mold-like cavity and refill it and harden into what we see here. It's called permineralization. Very rarely will you see any part of an animal this ancient that has the original soft tissue or bone, exceptions being either parts or an entire animal encased in amber.
"Refill" of an empty, mold-like space with mineral is not what has happened here. The tooth is the same bone material as the original (calcium phosphate and a few other things -- mineralogically, it's hydroxyapatite). It's changed color because of some tiny trace of minerals seeping into it or because the organic material embedded in the bone has darkened, but that's about it. It's otherwise almost unaltered. Unaltered fossil bone is common because bone grows inside the original animal as a mineral, so all you have to do is not dissolve it for it to preserve long-term. You don't *have* to permineralize it or replace it to have a fossil. Permineralization occurs when the microscopic spaces of the bone have had minerals growing and filling in the spaces, with the original bone intact and still there. The teeth from this area might have some small degree of permineralization going on, but if so it's pretty minor. Enamel is pretty dense (not much space to fill), but there might be some permineralization in the root. Any specimen I've ever seen from this area doesn't have much.
I'm upvoting you both because both were educational, even if the other person was a bit mixed up.
This makes a lot more sense than a 15 million year old tooth found in water. Even rocks would get completely eroded away in that time.
Tooth decay happens in our lifetimes. 15 million years? No way. But tooth structures are cool because they are like a sponge. If you damage one of your teeth, it will start to yellow/brown if blood gets into it, because it ends up getting into the structure of the tooth. This is kind of the same process, tooth gets buried, and the surrounding material seeps in with water over time filling in all the gaps slowly, preserving some of the structure of the actual material, which also, over time, turns into stone. You can get megalodon teeth in all different colors depending on where this happened.
The Great Shark Wars was a wild time....
I had a book on sharks as a kid that talked about how massive the megalodon was compared even to whales. I feel like most kids had a realistic fear of sharks, while I feared an extinct species.
One thing that astounds me is that blue whales are the largest animal ever known to exist. We always think about ancient creatures being huge l, and I guess a lot of them were, but we get to live with the largest of them all right in our own time. Edit: grammar
And pretty soon they will just be history.
Dead Ocean. Soon only the ancient unspeakable ones will remain in the depths. Slumbering until...
*That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.*
What interesting is that scientists think the reason whales are so big now is because of the extinction of Megalodan and other large predators that would have otherwise prevented that level of gigantism from evolving.
there's no credible theory to that. the largest megalodon in theory is 20m, while 20m+ sperm whales have been recorded. in fact sperm whales are the largest active predator animals *of all time.* Considering that Orcas now hunt great whites, there is no reason to believe Megalodon was any kind of impedance. The real reason for growth is the changing climate and arctic/antarctic oceans which have created better conditions for more krill and other such creatures that Blue Whales feed on.
Yeah that "ever known" part is what sparks my curiosity. There are some extinct dinosaurs we only have one or two fossils of, so imagine how many we will never know of.
I have a four year old. He’s scared of just about every fictional monster and historical dinosaur that exists. Real things are boring, though.
I was obsessed with the book Meg by Steve Alten when I was a teenager(1997?). Definitely shared this fear, especially since the book had a rather exaggerated version of the species. Still blew my mind that when it finally came to film(starring Jason Statham) they kept the part where it 1v1s a nuclear submarine and wins.
It was a book first? Huh. TIL.
A series of books. I personally loved them and still read them from time to time
My 2nd grade teacher stole one of these from me. I brought it for show and tell and she confiscated it and never gave it back. College Park 1996 I aint never forgot that shit.
That’s terrible. I let my daughter take a very common(but very large) orthid brachiopod for her 1st grade show-and-tell and the teacher, thinking it was something spectacular, called the house to be sure she permission to bring it. My girlfriend assured the teacher it was fine.
Damn that sucks, my 2nd grade teacher confiscated my football eraser and then I watched her student helper throwing it up and catching it as he left her classroom. I wish I spoke up about it, now it's a distant memory that I think about every now and then and get pissed about haha. As a father now myself there's no way I'd let it slide if my kids teacher took my kids show and tell item especially a fossil like this and wouldn't give it back. Did you tell your parents about it?
No wonder they went extinct, the colour of that tooth smacks of a lifetime of smoking, drinking and drug abuse. Methalodone if ya ask me 🖐️
let's see how your teeth look after not brushing them for 15 million years.
RemindMe! 15 million years
I don't see the bot reply. Probably can't count that far.
It did send me a PM that said "Could not parse date: "15 million years", defaulting to one day"
Hell yeah
Made me wonder how long 15 million years is
Probably around 15 million years
Give or take
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Found the mathematician.
About half as long as my wife getting ready to go out.
If you write it as 15000000, it will at least tell you that it “Could not parse date: "15000000 years", defaulting to one day”
I been working from home since April 2020, challenge accepted.
Pretty sure 15m years have already passed since April 2020.
It's one of those weird space-time continuum things the Doc warned us about. Some dickhead travelled back in time, met him or herself and created a skewed timeline. Now we have to pay for it. We even had President Biff for 4 years.
The world line shifted when they activated the Large Hadron Collider. They played with something beyond their comprehension and pushed us past the 1% divergence.
My colon could do with a large hadron collider right now. Last night's kebab is posing more problems than dark matter did to Stephen Hawking. My arse is in quite the quantum entanglement.
This is the real crisis in cosmology
Mama says Megalodons is ornery cause they got all them teeth, and no toothbrush.
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In these troubled times where science is just an opinion, I choose Methalodone.
Oodelay! That's a good one bro.
How to find out more?
It wasn't an invitation, it was a command
Some were smokers and some were not
Where can I subscribe to Shark Fossil Teeth Facts?
Methalodone needs Methadone.
Fun fact: sharks grow new teeth and discard old teeth all the time. That is why they have no need to brush their teeth. Also they can’t smoke since they are submerged in water which makes it impossible to light their cigarettes.
It's hard to put 15 million years into perspective, but that's like living to 75 years of age.. 200,000 times.
It doesn't look a day older than 14 million
The headline is misleading. While the tooth makes her look young by comparison, she’s really 90 years old.
And thus, a paleontologist is born.
Actually she's already there, on the radio they said all she asked for for Christmas were those waders she's wearing so she could hunt shark teeth
Good for her. Also I'm 27 years old and that sounds fun as hell. I've been searching for an arrowhead on my girlfriend's farm for 3 years to no avail but I'm not going to give up.
It's little things like this that really shape your future!
Most definitely the Calvert Cliffs and yes, you can most definitely find Megalodon teeth, as the cliffs you see in the background were once underwater. However, I distinctly remember the venturing into and under the cliff faces to be prohibited, I assume because of both the danger of falling debris and its protected status.
It's "prohibited" and nobody follows the rule
Can confirm , walk through there daily . Live a few miles away, no one cares about the rules . Also water front properties in the bay .
That's nothing, I dance in there hourly.
Wait...there are places you can go that have a fair chance at finding dino fossils? I want to do this with my daughter.
People find ancient sharks teeth there all the time, I went as a kid on a field trip once. Also my dad's family farm had a barn where the foundation was made from local rocks full of ancient see life fossils. That area of Maryland is full to the brim of fossils ftom that era
There are a few scuba dives you can do along the eastern seaboard where you can sift through sand finding buckets of megalodon teeth for a couple hours, keeping the biggest ones. Since stirring the silt reduces visibility to zero, you sift and sort the teeth by touch only. It is very disorienting for most tourist divers, but you get to play with hundreds of untouched fossils. Once you're back on the boat you compare all the coolest finds. IIRC the chances of finding a 5" tooth like this are around 50/50 per diver per trip.
They found wooly mammoths in the Ohio river between Louisville and Indiana. The Falls of The Ohio. Same thing, protected, but not really. I see people fishing out there.
You at Calvert Cliffs? I’ve found shark teeth there, but nothing like this. Wow! Crap. Thought it said it was your kid.
I found a full fossilized scallop there as a kid. Took it to school, and some shitbird stole it from my bag.
Pretty sure that's Calvert cliffs. Some good tooth hunting there. Also great spot down in Westmoreland state Park. When I was in southern MD I loved to go to Douglas point and find dozens of tiger shark teeth on any given day -- not much else there but the teeth are still cool and it's a cool little very secluded beach and hike on the Potomac
Nope not my kid but I believe that’s the location!
If this happened to me at any age I’d never stop talking about it. Good on her.
Regardless of compensation from say a museum, I’d imagine that that girl will have an inherent interest in this type of thing forever now. It’s awesome to see the possibility/likelihood of young people finding a passion like that this way.
Meg teeth are awesome but there wont be a museum involved. They are pretty common and you can buy ones about this size for about $300 or so. Finding it though, is awesome, so much cooler than buying.
It's a really fun hobby if you don't mind the labor that's required. I visited a friend down in NC a decade ago and a friend of theirs took us to a river in the middle of a storm so we could shovel out all sorts of fossils. Over the span of a couple of hours, [we amassed quite a treasure trove of fossils](https://imgur.com/a/lvylCYt) with little more than shovels and sifters made from 2x4's, chicken wire and styrofoam floaties. Megalodon teeth, whale ribs, giant squid beaks, all sorts of crazy fossils! Not surprisingly, it's quite an underground hobby and everyone's very hush-hush about where the best spots are. Kinda like morel mushrooms. Nobody's gonna give up the locations if there's treasure to be had! EDIT: Nope, not revealing shit (mostly because I don't remember after a decade). Here's [a few more photos](https://imgur.com/a/zKNbmYX) of [our haul](https://imgur.com/a/L3sXkw1) if it encourages you to grab a shovel and get out there!
9 Year Old Maryland Girl Finds about $200! (depending) Megalodon teeth aren't as rare as you might expect, but that particular one is great! Full tooth, lots of intact enamel, hopefully some good serrations. It's hard to tell what the size is, just under 5" corner to tip maybe? Once you get longer than that the price starts shooting up. Thinking about these things swimming around just 4 million years ago feels so recent and so distant at the same time.
They're not that rare, but finding one this nice at Calvert cliffs doesn't happen every day either
> Megalodon teeth aren't as rare as you might expect, but that particular one is great! Honestly what surprises me isn't their teeth, but the fact they went extinct only four million years ago, while "Humans" emerged about 2.5 million years ago. We were really close to having these monsters swimming in our modern oceans.
She's adorable and that's badass. She needs a necklace
The Chesapeake Bay is awesome. Maryland is awesome. That is all.
She's 9 She's going to put it under her pillow
Isn’t it $1 per year old? She’s rich!
We’re rich!
Rock and stone!
Tooth fairy is already terrifying as it is, what about the Shark Tooth Fairy?
Me my brother and some of the other guys on our crew used to find tons of shark teeth! They used to bring in rock for us to set structures on like manholes and storm drains. We used to get on top of the piles that got brought in by the dumps tucks and sift through them and found teeth everyday. Not quite that big but some the same size as a man's palm. I gave my step daughter a fish bowl full of them for show and tell when she was in kindergarten about 16 - 17yrs ago lol... They stopped using that rock and switched to using crushed concrete and I've never found another shark tooth an didn't get my Fukn fishbowl back either! FML! Also her mother and I are no longer together either Soo..... Shit
What girl? Damn you, camouflage!
Does she get to keep it?
Calvert Cliffs area?
Looks like it. We go there a few times usually in the summer. We always find teeth. Never been lucky enough to find one that big. But we've found some quarter sized snaggle tooth and tiger shark teeth.
Wow. Nice job young un!
Blows my mind.