Giant prehistoric shark teeth wash up on US beach
Super-sized shark teeth bigger than the size of the average human hand have washed up on beaches in North Carolina recently shocking locals.
Heavy rainfall and high tides along the coastline, caused by Hurricane Joaquin, have led to the discovery of 6-inch-long fossilised teeth from enormous megalodon sharks that swam the oceans up to 15 million years ago.
These long-buried marine fossils originated from the prehistoric giant sized 18-metre-long megalodon. Modern day great white sharks are more than three times smaller than the size of their relatives.
"Oh my God, like I said, I felt like I was a lottery winner or something," Denny Bland, who found a massive fossilised tooth on a beach in North Carolina, told a local news station.
Similar sized teeth were discovered earlier in the year by a Croatian man searching for shells in his local river.
MIck Fanning caused international headlines earlier this year when footage emerged of a shark attacking him during a surfing competition. The now infamous incident was all caught on camera.
Mick Fanning makes one Elle of a cover
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A South African fisherman recorded the moment he used a spear gun to ward off a great white shark that lunged toward him off the coast of Cape Town.
A massive shark has shut down a busy WA surf spot. No, it's NOT unusual to see sharks off our coast but this shark was bigger than anything surfers have ever seen.
Two men are seriously injured in separate shark attacks off the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
