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Daily Mirror
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Ria Newman & Paige Freshwater

Woman finds enormous megalodon shark tooth dating back at least 3 million years

A woman has discovered a shark tooth on the beach belonging to the biggest shark in the world – which went extinct more than three million years ago. Madison Neal, 23, spotted the giant tooth while hunting for shark teeth – and claims it came from the prehistoric beast.

She found an incredible 193 shark teeth from varying species on her walk with fiancé Chase – most of them much smaller in size, as well as five vertebrae. "I was super shocked to find one," Madison said. "I had already found about 150 small ones and I only moved up to the dry sand to eat my lunch when I just got to feeling to search about the bigger stuff – and there it was."

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