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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Amber Raiken

Nine-year-old girl discovers rare 15-million-year-old shark tooth at Maryland beach

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A nine-year-old child has discovered a rare shark tooth, which is 15 million-years-old, on a beach in Maryland.

Alicia Sampson recalled how her daughters, Molly, nine, and Natalie, 17, went shark tooth hunting on Christmas Day during a recent interview with The Washington Post. She said that once she and her family got to Maryland’s Calvert Cliffs State Park, Molly discovered a five-inch tooth, which was once in the mouth of a now-extinct megalodon shark.

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