The Christmas Morning Find That Stunned Paleontologists
A perfect example: 9-year-old Molly Sampson.
On Christmas morning, while most people were inside opening gifts, Molly was wading into the chilly waters of the Chesapeake Bay looking for fossils.
And she found one.
Not a tiny tooth. Not a little fragment.
An enormous Megalodon tooth.
That’s not just “cool fossil” territory. That’s “museum staff drop what they’re holding” territory.
Megalodon — the prehistoric shark so massive that a modern great white looks like a toy by comparison — is the kind of creature people know from documentaries and headlines. But its teeth? Those are the most common fossils it leaves behind, and they still feel unreal when you hold one.
Molly’s family did the smart thing: they brought the tooth to professionals to verify it.
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