| Imagine going to the beach and finding a five-inch long sharks tooth! That's just what happened to a young boy Sunday on Egmont Key. Johnathan Abel of The St. Petersburg Times wrote a great article on the boy's exciting shark's tooth discovery.
Sharks have about 6 rows of teeth. And apparently they lose quite a lot of them with all that chomping and biting they do.
Several million years ago lived the Megalodon shark, which scientists believe grew up to 60 feet long. Along the Florida beaches, fossilized teeth from the Megalodon occasionally find their way into the hands of divers and beachcombers.
The most famous beach on the Florida coast for finding fossilized sharks teeth is Venice Beach, south of the Sarasota area. Most of the shark's teeth found there are quite small, but there have been some real whoppers found there, especially by SCUBA divers just off the beach in 15 to 20 feet of water.
In fact, Venice, Florida is so well known for its fossilized shark's teeth that each year in April they have a Shark's Tooth Festival.
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