I just found the biggest megalodon tooth I have found in 20 years! Diva and I were fossil collecting after work in the dark by headlight and I was digging in an area with the okayest layer of the day. It was basically just green sand. There was not much gravel, and no bones at all. It was the kind of stuff I would normally pass by and look for better layer. But it was the getting late and my back was hurting and I really didn't feel like slogging through the thick mud or removing a bunch of overburden to get to layer I knew was better. I settled for this spot, content to run out the clock on this trip since I already had a 3.5 inch megalodon tooth and a whale tooth. It had already been a good day. I pushed my shovel in and felt it hit something hard. I pulled away the sand and revealed an immense root. Never have I "please be whole"ed so hard! I cleared away the sand near the tip of the tooth and saw it was all there. The tooth was display / curved / lingual side down. That side is almost always gone. I hesitated to turn it over. I stopped for a brief second to smell the roses and celebrate the moment of discovering such a majestic fossil, to appreciate what I had found, regardless of what the other side looked like. Then I flipped it. In the middle of that muddy hole, surrounded in darkness in the fading light of my headlamp I basked in the joy of my newfound treasure.
This is the biggest megalodon tooth I have found in any video I have ever made for RU-vid. Its an absolute monster that truly illustrates just how big these incredible prehistoric monsters were. This unbelievable fossil shark tooth at 6 1/8 inches dwarfs my hand. Its hard to wrap my head around how big this shark actually was with a mouthful of these teeth. I am beyond fortunate to have found this prize!
20 ноя 2022
