A 9-year-old girl from Maryland, who has collected more than 400 fossilized shark teeth, discovered a 5-inch megalodon gnasher on Christmas Day.
A 9-year-old fossil hunter who has collected more than 400 shark teeth along the Maryland coastline has found an enormous chomper belonging to a megalodon — the largest shark to ever swim Earth's oceans.
Molly and her older sister Natalie are both avid fossil hunters and each received a new pair of chest-high waders for Christmas to help them search for paleontological treasures, the girls' mother Alicia Sampson told Live Science in an email. After opening their presents on Christmas morning, the pair immediately set out with their father Bruce to test out their new gear.
"Dr. Godfrey explained to Molly that the shark would've been the size of a Greyhound bus," Alicia said."Molly didn't know what that was so she looked it up and could not believe it." Molly is not the only child to discover a megalodon tooth. In May 2022, a 6-year-old boy in the U.K. found a 4-inch-long megalodon tooth on a beach in Sussex, England. But unlike other paleontology prodigies, Molly has come across multiple megalodon teeth.
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'Once-in-a-lifetime' discovery: 9-year-old girl finds megalodon tooth on Maryland beachA 9-year-old aspiring paleontologist found the find of a lifetime on Christmas morning: a massive 5-inch tooth from a millions-year-old megalodon.
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'Once-in-a-lifetime' discovery: 9-year-old girl finds megalodon tooth on Maryland beachThe aspiring paleontologist has spent years combing Maryland's beaches for shark teeth, inspired by her father's love of fossils.
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'Once-in-a-lifetime' discovery: 9-year-old girl finds megalodon tooth on Maryland beachThe aspiring paleontologist has spent years combing Maryland's beaches for shark teeth, inspired by her father's love of fossils.
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'Once-in-a-lifetime' discovery: 9-year-old girl finds megalodon tooth on Maryland beachThe aspiring paleontologist has spent years combing Maryland's beaches for shark teeth, inspired by her father's love of fossils.
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