Charleston SC Megalodon Tooth Hunting
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 Published On Mar 18, 2024

I have lived in Charleston SC for my entire life and I've been hunting for fossil shark teeth since I was a small child. Shark teeth can be found all over the place in the lowcountry so we used to find them when we played in the ditches. My dad used to take my brother and me to hunt for them on the dredge piles, in the sand pits, and any place he heard we could find them. I even remember finding teeth on the playground in middle school. One time when I was a young teenager, my dad took my brother and me shrimping in the Ashley River near the harbor. There used to be a spot between the interstate and West Ashley where lots of people used to go fishing, crabbing, shrimping, etc. We used a drag net - a net extended between two poles that we would drag through the water and my brother and I took turns on one end when my dad was on the other. I would drag the net while my brother played on the beach and vice versa. At the end of my turn, I grabbed a big blue crab out of the net and he pinched my finger so hard it started gushing blood and my dad said I was done in the water for the day because he didn't want my injury to get infected. Like a lot of places, we could find shark teeth at this spot too so I switched gears and started scouring the ground. I was walking near the river bank where there was a small vertical edge and I saw a big U shaped black rock poking out of the edge. I pulled on it and huge blade followed it. I stared at it in shock as I turned over the huge tooth in my hand, still bleeding from the my encounter with the crab. I had never found such a large shark tooth ever. I rushed over to the water and rinsed it off with my good hand. It was majestic, the first megalodon tooth I ever found. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the fuel that sparked a lifelong obsession with hunting for megalodon teeth. Fast forward a few decades and I'm still out looking for the fossilized teeth of the extinct giant white shark. Today the action is at Sloth Party, the dirt pit where @AncientAdventures and I have been pulling out all kinds of fossils for the past few months. There are a bunch of megalodon teeth at this spot, more than any other I have ever collected. Early on in the hunting here I started keeping a running count of all the megalodon teeth I found at this spot and I ran it up a few digits today! I hope you enjoy the video of the hunt and the recovery of a few more awesome fossils from one of the most awe inspiring predator the earth has ever known!

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