by: Lincoln W.
Nine-year-old Molly Sampson found a megalodon tooth in Calvert Cliffs State Park in Maryland on Christmas.
A megalodon is a shark, but like fifteen times bigger than a normal shark. The tooth was five inches tall.
They gave the tooth to Stephan Godfrey, a local scientist. He confirmed it was a megalodon tooth. He said it was a once in a lifetime find.
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By Ellis P.
Did you think sea monster tales were just to scare us? To keep kids away from the water? Well, when T.rex was alive, there were monsters like this!
This is a Thalassotitan Atrox. It was a prehistoric sea animal when T-rex was alive. Dr. Nick Longrich, the leader of the studies on Thalassotitan Atrox described it as “Imagine a Komodo dragon crossed with a great white shark crossed with a T. rex crossed with a killer whale.” It was recently unearthed in Morocco. They evolved into snakes, iguanas, and monitor lizards. The teeth in the skull were damaged because it chewed on prey’s bones.
