Fossil discoveries along Maryland’s Calvert Cliffs reveal that ancestors of the great white shark, dating back 15 million years, consumed marine mammals like dolphins and whales despite lacking the ...

Visit this unique beachside hiking trail in Maryland and find fossilized shark teeth while you swim!

Calvert Marine Museum Paleontology Collection Manager John Nance began searching that shoreline for shark teeth when he was a young boy. “I got started with my grandfather,” he said.

Amateur fossil hunters typically find around 100 megalodon teeth on Calvert Cliffs per year, he added. But most of them are much smaller than Molly’s huge tooth. The largest megalodon teeth ever ...

Maryland 9-year-old finds rare ancient shark tooth Christmas Day Budding paleontologist Molly Sampson found the 5-inch megalodon tooth near Calvert Cliffs, Md., while trying out the new insulated ...

Calvert Cliffs is a hotspot for fossilized shark teeth, including megalodon gnashers, because the cliffs are made from layers of seafloor sediment left behind from an ancient ocean that covered ...

Molly Sampson, who's been shark-tooth hunting since age 1, was looking for teeth on Christmas Day in Maryland when she found a 5-inch megalodon tooth.

Over 500 species of sharks exist in our oceans today, ranging from hammerheads (Sphyrnidae) to tiger sharks (Galeocerdo ...

Along the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay where more than 30 miles of cliffs – some as high as 100 feet – generations of people have been finding fossils, especially shark teeth that date ...

Amateur fossil hunters typically find around 100 megalodon teeth on Calvert Cliffs per year, he added. But most of them are much smaller than Molly’s huge tooth. The largest megalodon teeth ever ...