Boy, 8 years old, discovers giant shark tooth in South Carolina: 'Find of a lifetime'
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While on a family vacation in South Carolina, an eight-year-old boy found a 4.75-inch shark tooth believed to be from a long-extinct shark species, the angustidens, related to the megalodon.
"Meet a future paleontologist! Good job, young man!" "We call it 'premium" due to the high quality of preservation in the hastalis, tigers, cows, great whites and bull shark teeth that are coming out of it." Cortney Moore is an associate lifestyle writer/producer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent on Twitter at @CortneyMoore716.
During the trip, the family stopped by Palmetto Fossil Excursions, an educational fossil-hunting expedition facility in Summerville, South Carolina.
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