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A family’s search for seashells on the Jersey Shore took an unexpected turn when a father and son uncovered the tooth of an ancient shark<\/a> \u2014 and it dates back millions of years.<\/p>\n

Mike Bowers and his son, Bo Bowers, uncovered the fossil, which came from an Otodus megalodon, in Sea Isle City<\/a> near the Townsend Inlet on August 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Megalodons were the largest predatory sharks in Earth’s history, and went extinct around 4 million years ago.<\/p>\n

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Pictures of the tooth show its massive size and dark, jagged edge, with the fossil measuring roughly the length of young Bo Bowers’ hand.<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania family had been vacationing in Wildwood<\/a> when an overcast day prompted them to look for somewhere different to search for shells, Mike Bowers told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

“There was a rock jetty and a real nice looking beach,” said Mike Bowers. “And I was like, well, let’s go check it out.”<\/p>\n

The father noticed something in a small opening between two rocks, but his hand was too large to fit, so he called his son over.<\/p>\n

Bo Bowers told Fox News Digital that he was initially hesitant to reach into the rocks but grabbed the tooth as soon as he saw it.<\/p>\n

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The 11-year-old said it was “really hard to believe” when he learned the tooth was millions of years old<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“He likes to look for shark teeth and stuff like that,” Mike Bowers added.<\/p>\n

The family “definitely did not expect to find something of that stature,” he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Bowers family was allowed to keep the tooth because it was found on a public beach<\/a>, the dad told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

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On their way home to western Pennsylvania, the family stopped at the New Jersey State Museum to have the tooth examined.<\/p>\n

“[An official] took us up to the fossil lab, and he examined it and confirmed it,” he said. “[It] 100% is a true megalodon tooth.”<\/p>\n

Mike Bowers added that an official told him only five megalodon teeth had previously been recorded as found on New Jersey beaches, and that the family’s discovery was the sixth.<\/p>\n

Dana Ehret of the New Jersey State Museum<\/a> confirmed the tooth’s authenticity to Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

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“These teeth are highly uncommon in New Jersey because we do not have the right aged sediments preserved at or near the surface,” said Ehret.<\/p>\n

“The Bowers tooth is in extraordinary good condition for a tooth from New Jersey. It reminds me of the teeth found in North Carolina, where they are much more common,” he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Typically, teeth [found in New Jersey] are substantially worn from being in the water for long periods of time.”<\/p>\n

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The discovery is one of several ancient finds made by children in unexpected places in recent months.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, an 11-year-old boy in England discovered a roughly 1.8 million-year-old tooth<\/a> from an extinct relative of modern elephants while visiting a beach.<\/p>\n

In another unusual find, an 8-year-old boy in Israel found a 1,700-year-old Roman statuette fragment<\/a> and brought it to school for show-and-tell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/travel\/shocking-prehistoric-discovery-nj-beach-100-came-from-colossal-ancient-predator <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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