Molly Sampson, a fourth grader from Prince Frederick, Maryland, found a 15 million-year-old megalodon tooth on Christmas in a bay near Calvert Cliffs. Her family had it checked by a paleontologist.
"From where she found the tooth along Calvert Cliffs, it is about 15 million years old. So it came from the middle of what geologists would refer to as the Miocene epoch," Godfrey told Fox News Digital in an interview.Scientists are able
"Radioactive isotopes change over time," he also said,"and it is that very constant rate of change that can be used to age the sediments and by extension the fossils within."Based on the size of the tooth, Godfrey was able to give an estimated size of the creature to which the tooth belonged. "Molly’s meg tooth would have come from a shark between 45-50 feet long. So, when it shed that tooth, it would not have been as"It was a ‘young teenager,’" he said."The very largest megs are calculated to have been 65 feet long."
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