The 15-million-year-old tooth is roughly the size of the girl's hand. 👀
SOLOMONS, Md. - A 9-year-old girl was fossil hunting with her family in Maryland when she made an impressive find: a massive, prehistoric shark tooth.The 15-million-year-old tooth is five inches long, the size of Molly’s hand.
Experts say it likely belonged to a shark nearly 50 feet long, almost the size of a semi-truck trailer. Molly has been looking for a meg-tooth like this for a while. She said she wants to be a paleontologist and knows all about megalodon sharks, which became extinct millions of years ago.Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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