TODAY IN NIGHTMARE FUEL: 18-Metre Shark’s Teeth Wash Up On Beach

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October 25, 2015

Hey guys? If you’re kinda scared of sharks, maybe don’t read this story? Like, just click away? Here’s one about Harry Potter, if you want?

Still here?

Cool, because fossilised teeth from an 18-metre shark just washed up in the US and they are the stuff of absolute nightmares.

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That, dear friends, is a Megalodon, an ancient ancestor of the modern day great white shark which roamed the waters somewhere between 15 million and 5 million years ago, and is the size of A SMALL BUS.

One of the teeth is about 15cm long:

“Oh my god, like I said, I felt like I was a lottery winner of something,” Denny Blend, who found one of the massive fossilised teeth on a beach in North Carolina, told a local news station. “It’s like I’m the first one to touch that since it fell out of its mouth back in the day.”

Apparently the North Carolina coast is something of a ‘hotspot’ for ancient fossilised sharks, but high tides, recent rains, and extreme weather means teeth have been washing up in record numbers.

Beachgoers in North Carolina are finding teeth belonging to a 60-foot prehistoric shark https://t.co/S1Qzlxkqcx pic.twitter.com/pvKKyT3u9L

— Austin Hunt (@AustinHunt) October 24, 2015