A schoolgirl was shocked when she found a tooth which once belonged to the biggest shark to ever stalk the Earth’s oceans, 20 million years ago.
Cydney Root, 12, was searching a beach for fossils in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, when she found a tooth as large as her hand.
Her aunt, Sophie Freestone, quickly identified it as once belonging to a megalodon, which ruled the Earth’s seas in prehistoric times.
