Interesting Find In NC?

Digger · Oct 25, 2015

Megaladon shark teeth found on North Carolina beach - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

HenryHill · Oct 25, 2015

There goes that smile.

Thumpalumpacus · Oct 25, 2015

Somewhere a lawyer is suing his dentist.

WholeLottaIzzy · Oct 25, 2015

Just under 6 inches. Not a bad size for a meg at all. Those things could get huge. Just so you can get an idea of how big these things were:

(the green one is a great white).

LP121 · Oct 25, 2015

I hear Maryland, along the Chesapeake bay is a really good place to find them.

THDNUT · Oct 25, 2015

Well, how much can you sell something like that for?

Enough to buy a new LP? :naughty:

WholeLottaIzzy · Oct 25, 2015

THDNUT said:
Well, how much can you sell something like that for?

Enough to buy a new LP?

Larger ones in good condition are very expensive. There's a few shops in town that sell average ones for over £400.

Kamen_Kaiju · Oct 25, 2015

Mr Bland?

That's a terrible supervillian name

Bill Hicklin · Oct 25, 2015

Malikon said:
Mr Bland?

That's a terrible supervillian name

He was in the Reservoir Dogs gang. He was the accountant.

ElCamino · Oct 25, 2015

Old gf (as in the past, not a senior citizen). Early in the relationship, walking the beach at her family's condo in Lake Worth, FL. Explains how the fam has been collecting shark teeth for years. I just happen to look down right when she says that. "Oh, like this one?" Close to the size of a silver dollar and perfectly intact. Having never found a specimen anywhere near the size and condition in 20 years of hunting, she melts down from Tasmanian devil-nuts to quivering puddle of tears. Even accuses me of bringing it with me in the non-existent pocket of my board shorts and tossing it on the beach when she wasn't looking.

Moral to my thread hijack is to heed those red flags. No, not that there are Great Whites off the beach in Lake Worth, FL (although I suppose there might be as a bit of super sleuthing on the old Interweb and I concluded it was indeed a tooth of a Great White) but that this chick was nuts. Spent the next 5 years with her. Hot as balls, of Cuban decent (not that there's anything wrong with that) and psycho. You know the type: same reaction whether her parents went down in a fiery plane crash over the North Sea or realized after brewing a cup of coffee that we were out of cream. Still searching for a surgeon to reattach my scrotum. You know that graph that plots degree of crazy on one axis and hotness on the other? Whoever came up with that has my full respect. Oh yeah, and a couple months after I found the tooth, she washed it in the pocket of her jeans, which pretty much transformed it from a mint AAA top to a river rock. Gawd I miss her.

rockinlespaul · Oct 25, 2015

ElCamino said:
Old gf (as in the past, not a senior citizen). Early in the relationship, walking the beach at her family's condo in Lake Worth, FL. Explains how the fam has been collecting shark teeth for years. I just happen to look down right when she says that. "Oh, like this one?" Close to the size of a silver dollar and perfectly intact. Having never found a specimen anywhere near the size and condition in 20 years of hunting, she melts down from Tasmanian devil-nuts to quivering puddle of tears. Even accuses me of bringing it with me in the non-existent pocket of my board shorts and tossing it on the beach when she wasn't looking.

Moral to my thread hijack is to heed those red flags. No, not that there are Great Whites off the beach in Lake Worth, FL (although I suppose there might be as a bit of super sleuthing on the old Interweb and I concluded it was indeed a tooth of a Great White) but that this chick was nuts. Spent the next 5 years with her. Hot as balls, of Cuban decent (not that there's anything wrong with that) and psycho. You know the type: same reaction whether her parents went down in a fiery plane crash over the North Sea or realized after brewing a cup of coffee that we were out of cream. Still searching for a surgeon to reattach my scrotum. You know that graph that plots degree of crazy on one axis and hotness on the other? Whoever came up with that has my full respect. Oh yeah, and a couple months after I found the tooth, she washed it in the pocket of her jeans, which pretty much transformed it from a mint AAA top to a river rock. Gawd I miss her.

Big John · Oct 25, 2015

LPSGME · Oct 25, 2015

Why did they go extinct? Did ocean life ever completely die off to where there was just plants and micro organisms etc.

WholeLottaIzzy · Oct 25, 2015

LPSGME said:
Why did they go extinct? Did ocean life ever completely die off to where there was just plants and micro organisms etc.

It's strange, isn't it? I don't believe anyone has found conclusive evidence to that question. Sharks have been around for 450 million years, yet megalodon went extinct. Great whites were around at the same time too, I believe yet they survived? Nothing would prey on it. It's like Deinosuchus. Same as an alligator just a lot bigger (40 feet). Nothing could take it on, yet it went extinct.

The small skull is an adult alligator.

bulletproof · Oct 25, 2015

WholeLottaIzzy said:
It's strange, isn't it? I don't believe anyone has found conclusive evidence to that question. Sharks have been around for 450 million years, yet megalodon went extinct. Great whites were around at the same time too, I believe yet they survived? Nothing would prey on it. It's like Deinosuchus. Same as an alligator just a lot bigger (40 feet). Nothing could take it on, yet it went extinct.

The small skull is an adult alligator.

Yaaa,that is strange....top predators that went ****-up. My youngest son got real excited not long ago. There was a special on Animal Planet,I think,about how a boat was attacked not long ago by a Megalodon and the ensuing search to find it.

WholeLottaIzzy · Oct 25, 2015

bulletproof said:
Yaaa,that is strange....top predators that went ****-up. My youngest son got real excited not long ago. There was a special on Animal Planet,I think,about how a boat was attacked not long ago by a Megalodon and the ensuing search to find it.

It definitely wasn't a megalodon as they are long gone.

Davio · Oct 25, 2015

They were so big, they probably could not get enough to eat. Smarter and faster dolphins probably worried them silly making sport of their stupid over-sized selves. This was the dawn of bullying. Ever seen a little bird chase a larger bird?

Then, after the Jew fish were put on the endangered list, it was all over.

GitFiddle · Oct 25, 2015

LP121 said:
I hear Maryland, along the Chesapeake bay is a really good place to find them.

When I was a kid, I found one on the bay. We were camping for the weekend. The one I found was about a third the size of the OP.

Tone deaf · Oct 25, 2015

ElCamino said:
Old gf (as in the past, not a senior citizen). Early in the relationship, walking the beach at her family's condo in Lake Worth, FL. Explains how the fam has been collecting shark teeth for years. I just happen to look down right when she says that. "Oh, like this one?" Close to the size of a silver dollar and perfectly intact. Having never found a specimen anywhere near the size and condition in 20 years of hunting, she melts down from Tasmanian devil-nuts to quivering puddle of tears. Even accuses me of bringing it with me in the non-existent pocket of my board shorts and tossing it on the beach when she wasn't looking.

Moral to my thread hijack is to heed those red flags. No, not that there are Great Whites off the beach in Lake Worth, FL (although I suppose there might be as a bit of super sleuthing on the old Interweb and I concluded it was indeed a tooth of a Great White) but that this chick was nuts. Spent the next 5 years with her. Hot as balls, of Cuban decent (not that there's anything wrong with that) and psycho. You know the type: same reaction whether her parents went down in a fiery plane crash over the North Sea or realized after brewing a cup of coffee that we were out of cream. Still searching for a surgeon to reattach my scrotum. You know that graph that plots degree of crazy on one axis and hotness on the other? Whoever came up with that has my full respect. Oh yeah, and a couple months after I found the tooth, she washed it in the pocket of her jeans, which pretty much transformed it from a mint AAA top to a river rock. Gawd I miss her.

All I hear is "Blah, blah, blah...hot Cuban chic..."

Kamen_Kaiju · Oct 25, 2015

GitFiddle said:
When I was a kid, I found one on the bay. We were camping for the weekend. The one I found was about a third the size of the OP.

yeah when I was a kid we used to go to the Bay and search for shark teeth.

Found tons of them but nothing really big. Biggest was maybe about the size of a US Nickel.

Most were more like Dime sized.

had a whole jar of them when I was like 8 or so.

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