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Recreate your own Shark Week off the coast of Wilmington! This North Carolina Diving Location is a Hot Spot for Prehistoric Megalodon Shark Teeth Skip to main content
Palmetto Fossil Excursions, located about 25 miles northwest of Charleston, reported the dual discoveries in a Nov. 3 Facebook post, and included photos of the large, rust-colored tooth.
The sharks were about 50 feet long, experts say.
Paleontology in North Carolina refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of North Carolina. Fossils are common in North Carolina. According to author Rufus Johnson, "almost every major river and creek east of Interstate 95 has exposures where fossils can be found". [ 1 ]
Diagram illustrating the largest (grey) and most conservative (red) size estimates of the Miocene-Pliocene shark Carcharocles megalodon (sometimes Carcharodon or Otodus megalodon) with a whale shark (violet), great white shark (green), and anachronistic human (black) to scale †Otodus megalodon
Otodus chubutensis, [1] meaning "ear-shaped tooth of Chubut", from Ancient Greek ὠτ (ōt, meaning "ear") and ὀδούς (odoús, meaning "tooth") – thus, "ear-shaped tooth", is an extinct species of prehistoric megatoothed sharks in the genus Otodus, that lived during Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene, in ~28–5.3 milions years ago. [2]
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[52] [127] [128] [129] Despite the criticism from scientists, Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives was a huge ratings success, gaining 4.8 million viewers, the most for any Shark Week episode up to that point. [130] Megalodon teeth are the state fossil of North Carolina. [131]