Six-year-old boy finds giant megalodon shark tooth on UK beach
Image caption,Photographs of the find were sent to Prof Garrod, a broadcaster and evolutionary biologist at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.
"Maybe just a handful a year, but this is a particularly good example, in really good condition, whereas they are usually quite worn when found." Dwarfing anything else swimming in the waters at the time, these were "specialist whale eaters - they were ambush hunters," Prof Garrod said.The megalodon dominated all the seas around the world other than those parts of the oceans surrounding Antarctica.It could eat anything it liked, but its favourite food was whales, although seals would also have been on the menu
Lived between about 20 million and 1.5 million years ago, long after the dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years agoThe name means "big tooth" and the giants were active from about 22 million years ago until about three million years ago when they became extinct."Not many people who look for a megalodon tooth actually find one," he said.
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