The letter “S” features heavily in spring break festivities; sea, swimwear, sports, and sun loungers reign supreme. But for Avery Fauth, a young student who spent her spring break with her family near North Topsail Beach in North Carolina, her “S” was a little more dramatic: shark.
In mid-April of 2019, Fauth unearthed an ancient treasure from an extinct species, incidentally a treasure that her father had been searching for for over two decades. She found a megalodon shark tooth while sifting through the sandy beach and the debris left by the ebbing tide.
