Digging Science

This Megalodon tooth is going straight to the personal collection!

This recently recovered Megalodon tooth has a blade as sharp as the day it was lost!

After being buried by sediment and becoming mineralized, it survived for millions of years before we discovered it eroding out of the bottom of one of Georgia's coastal rivers! Most teeth don't survive to be whole, let alone ready to cut dinner! But, this special tooth was found just in time to save it!

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More Miocene fossils from this week including an incredibly well preserved Megalodon tooth with a nearly immaculate blade.

Will post pictures of it cleaned up and dry soon!

Our 3.07" Parotodus benedenii from this week all cleaned up! NFS

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Yesterday, we found our first—and quite possibly our last—3"+ Parotodus benedenii tooth.

“Benis,” as they’re affectionately called, are among the rarest fossil shark teeth found in Miocene to Early Pleistocene-aged deposits. Parotodus benedenii was a large lamniform shark that shared the ancient oceans with Megalodon, but unlike Megalodon, it is believed to have been primarily pelagic, spending much of its time in the open ocean rather than nearshore environments.

That lifestyle likely helps explain why its teeth are so uncommon in the fossil record. In our experience, Parotodus teeth are easily 100× rarer than Megalodon teeth.

And this specimen is something special.

At a 3.07" total slant length, very few Parotodus benedenii teeth make it past the 3-inch mark. Combine that size with the exceptional preservation, which is among the top 1% of all shark teeth I've ever found.

Finding a specimen like this is one of those moments that reminds you why you keep looking.

I'll post photos of the tooth cleaned up and ready to appreciate on Friday.

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Super crisp meg tooth from our last trip.

Did you know megalodon sharks lost and replaced up to 40,000 teeth over their life? Thats about one set (~276 teeth) every 1-2 weeks!

This absolutely massive 6.21" meg tooth was found by us and expertly restored by Ancient Artworks.

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Despite the name, modern paleontology reveals this formidable Miocene and Pliocene shark is actually a direct evolutionary ancestor of today’s Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias). Reaching lengths over 20 feet, C. hastalis (previously Isurus hastalis) dominated ancient oceans using its smooth-edged, broad teeth to grasp and impale fast-moving marine prey. Over millions of years, this species gradually evolved the iconic serrations of the modern Great White Shark tooth.

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