Boy Who Vowed He'd One Day Find a Giant Prehistoric Shark Tooth Finds One

Megalogon tooth. (By Tomleetaiwan (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons)

A shark-obsessed Virginia boy who always said he was going to find a giant prehistoric shark tooth one day ended up actually finding one during a family vacation on North Myrtle Beach in June.

Foster Frazier, 7, found a megalodon tooth around 5 inches in length while digging along a stream near the beach.

Megalodon sharks inhabited the oceans 2.6-23 million years ago, and the name megalodon actually means “giant tooth.”

These sharks were 50-59 feet long, according to Daniel Abel, a marine science professor at Coastal Carolina University. That’s about four times the length of the great white sharks that are alive today.

A shark size comparison with two megalodon species appearing in grey and red. (By Scarlet23 [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)