Category: tooth

Woman Walking on California Beach Finds Ancient Mastodon Tooth

APTOS, Calif.—A woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on a California beach found something unusual sticking out of the sand: a tooth from an ancient mastodon. But then the fossil vanished, and it took a media blitz and a kind-hearted jogger to find it again. Jennifer Schuh found the foot-long (.30-meter) tooth sticking out…


Girl, 9, Finds ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Huge Shark Tooth From 15 Million-Year-Old, 50-Foot Megalodon

A 9-year-old fossil hunter from Maryland stumbled across a once-in-a-lifetime find while scouting for treasures on the Calvert County coastline on the Chesapeake Bay: a huge tooth from a 15 million-year-old megalodon. On Dec. 25, Molly Sampson, a fourth grader from Southern Maryland was out fossil hunting with her big sister, Natalie. Molly was wrapped in…


Archaeologists Find 1.8 Million-Year-Old Human Tooth Near Georgian Village—Among Oldest Human Remains on Earth

Archaeologists in Georgia have found a 1.8 million-year-old tooth belonging to an early human, which they say cements the region as the home of one of the earliest prehistoric human settlements in Europe, possibly anywhere outside Africa. The tooth was discovered near the village of Orozmani, around 62 miles (100 km) southwest of the Georgian…