My Biggest Megalodon Tooth in 20 Years
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ม.ค. 2025
- I just found the biggest megalodon tooth I have found in 20 years! Diva and I were fossil collecting after work in the dark by headlight and I was digging in an area with the okayest layer of the day. It was basically just green sand. There was not much gravel, and no bones at all. It was the kind of stuff I would normally pass by and look for better layer. But it was the getting late and my back was hurting and I really didn't feel like slogging through the thick mud or removing a bunch of overburden to get to layer I knew was better. I settled for this spot, content to run out the clock on this trip since I already had a 3.5 inch megalodon tooth and a whale tooth. It had already been a good day. I pushed my shovel in and felt it hit something hard. I pulled away the sand and revealed an immense root. Never have I "please be whole"ed so hard! I cleared away the sand near the tip of the tooth and saw it was all there. The tooth was display / curved / lingual side down. That side is almost always gone. I hesitated to turn it over. I stopped for a brief second to smell the roses and celebrate the moment of discovering such a majestic fossil, to appreciate what I had found, regardless of what the other side looked like. Then I flipped it. In the middle of that muddy hole, surrounded in darkness in the fading light of my headlamp I basked in the joy of my newfound treasure.
This is the biggest megalodon tooth I have found in any video I have ever made for TH-cam. Its an absolute monster that truly illustrates just how big these incredible prehistoric monsters were. This unbelievable fossil shark tooth at 6 1/8 inches dwarfs my hand. Its hard to wrap my head around how big this shark actually was with a mouthful of these teeth. I am beyond fortunate to have found this prize!
God, that feeling of anticipation before you flipped it over... and the sense of relief that both sides were in great shape.
for sure man! before I knew, it was terrifying and exhilarating at the same time! But after I saw it was all there, it was like I won the lottery
You never cease to make me incredibly jealous of you with finds like this. Absolutely amazing.
thanks! it'll be tough for me to top this!
I have pictures. And I have a lot
The Worlds record megalodon tooth was 7.48 inches from Peru. And it was broken and glued back to together. So that 6 1/8 is about as big as they get for your area. Especially being an unbroken G10 specimen. I'd say you won the lottery.
they get huge in my area too. There have been two 7 inch teeth from the Charleston area I know about, but they were both scuba finds. It is infinitely more difficult to dig a six than to find one diving. I have never heard of a 7 from Summerville but its possible. I doubt I will ever dig a 7 but I am going to keep trying! regardless I agree, I did win the lottery with this one! Thanks for watching!
@@blackriverfossils With 7-7.5 inch teeth, the megalodon is a monster of monsters. This monster shark can reach a size of 20 meters, or even more than 20 meters. I am not surprised.
😱that Meg is killer Kim! Congrats!
thank you!!
"Megalodon! That's who ate it!" -That's a clip for the ages! Love it! Congrats!
she's a trip!
Wow! Congrats!! Great finds! Mega Megladon!! Happy Thanksgiving!
thank you! Happy Thanksgiving to you too
Wow, just wow! You're both making incredible finds.
As for the size of that big Megalodon tooth, it's hard to imagine just how big that shark must have been.
it was truly unbelievable. I always want to find a big tooth, but I never expect anything that size!
It was probably a 16-meter-long adult female megalodon and probably weighed more than 50 tons.
@@blackriverfossils It was probably a 16-meter-long adult female megalodon and probably weighed more than 50 tons.
Adult female megalodon is generally 13~15 meters in length. In some places, the average adult female can even reach 16 meters in size.
Paraphrasing a scholar, it is not uncommon for adult megalodons to have large teeth close to 6 inches. Large teeth in the range of 6~6.5 inches are often found on the bottom of the South/North Carolina seabed. Only female sharks can achieve that kind of horror size. The most common adult shark teeth are 4~5.5 inches in size, which may include adult male sharks and young adult female sharks.
She’s a beauty! Congratulations
thank you!
I am SUPER happy for you. Putting in all the work and it payed off!
thank you so much!
OMG 6.08 inches long megalodon tooth that is a new record good find dude great job
thanks I am still in shock!
My favourite channel on you tube so glad ur uploading regular vids again
thank you for watching!
Love what you do, me and my family yearly go to a beach in south Victoria, Australia where we can find shark teeth washing up on the beach. Teeth range from makos and tigers to cows and a lot of great white teeth. Happy hunting from down under!
I love to hear of finds from far away places! There was a time when I wondered what kind of fossils people found in Australia. It sounds like you have a rich collecting area, thats great! thanks for the comment and happy hunting to you and your family!
Amazing!!
That Meg was insane! Awesome find!
thanks!
That’s A Fantastic Find , So Awesome !!!
thank you!
Massive tooth and a fantastic find. Well done. 👍👏
thanks!
Awesome finds 👏👏👏!! That big Meg is a phat tooth Congrats!! You are 100% right on the whale teeth they are very hard to find in one piece they seem to fall apart. Thank you for sharing your hunt with us.
thank you it was a fantastic hunt! I feel sorry for the smaller meg it gets no love haha!
What an absolute BRUTE of a Tooth!!! Perfect! Truly amazing what you all uncover! Thank you and Congrats! (My biggest tooth is 2.5"😄) but I'm Super proud of it! 👊
thank you i love the shape of that tooth its so classic! keep on hunting there's more out there!
wow thats fantastic trouble is it makes an addiction (tooth hunting) even more addictive thank you soooo much for sharing amazing!
i agree completely! I was hooked already, though 🤣
I watch a lot of videos on fossil hunting. That's the biggest tooth I've ever seen someone find.
What a find, it's amazing to thing it's almost as wide as it is long! Definitely want to find out what that bone was too!
its a giant for sure! that was a big piece of whale bone, most likely baleen jaw
seeing that come out of the ground and the imprint it left is incredible! I would be shaking head to toe picking that up
i could barely speak I was so shocked how big it was. I always love seeing the imprint in the ground too. This one was so big it was like a sarcophagus!
@@blackriverfossils the way the blade stuck out from the formation on top when you picked it up was crazy and wiping it off showing the full reveal was so cool to see. Many thanks to you and Diva for sharing such great moments like that.
Wow, sweet finds, good luck on the next dig!!
thanks!
Do you provide guided digs? I would love to join you on one of these!
i'm just an amateur collector so I don't guide tours.
Bravo la grande dent est vraiment spectaculaire, continue comme ça !
merci, je les cherche toujour!
That one will bring a few bucks.
maybe but I am going to keep it. its very rare to dig teeth this big.
Awesomeness! That tooth is a freak! Very nice find.
thank you!
What a monster !! Congrats !!
thanks!
Absolutely nuts.
What state and dream are you finding these in?
That’s cool
Where does the rare betadini ? Come from? What shark or critter ?
Parotodus benedeni is an extinct shark, commonly called the false mako. It has sickle shaped teeth reaching max sizes a little over 3 inches.
@@blackriverfossils You make me wise, thank you!😇
@@countrygirl1006 happy to help! may your quest for knowledge be unceasing.
I heard there's some guy willing to pay big bucks for a good size megeladon tooth. He may just see your post if word gets around. What a find! There has to be more finds just like that in that hole. Fantastic
There are a bunch of people out there who will buy huge ones but I would never sell it. its the biggest I found in 20 years! I may not ever find one this big again. and you're absolutely right about there being more huge ones in that hole, there has to be!
An absolute monster and in such great shape!!!
megalodon was such an incredible animal!
It is an upper jaw anterior tooth.
Happy early Thanksgiving! My hands would be shaking if I found that beast.. I Imagine that tooth came from a 50 ft Meg! Amazing man..congratulations
thank you! Happy Thanksgiving to you as well!
Congratulations! This is about a 16-meter-long monster-level adult female megalodon!
thank you!
very big
Incredible ! !thabk!thank you for sharing. Hopefully we can.find some shark teeth out here in new mexico soon. We are told about a place west of albuquerque.
i have heard of shark teeth in Baja, and they are also in CA so it is entirely likely they are close to you too. Good luck!
Epic find, congrats!
thank you!
How much could you sell them for. That big one
I've seen similar size teeth sell for $3000 to $5000 and not even in this condition. It all depends on the buyer. At auction, this could start a biding war and bring well over $15,000. You regularly hear there's a Million dollar reward for pristine teeth over 7 inches from rich collectors overseas. So it really all depends. I think the general rule of thumb is $100 an inch up to 5 inches, and $1000 and inch over 6 inches depending on condition.
MOEMUGGY nailed it. I agree but there's no way I'm gonna sell it
@@blackriverfossils I didn't know they were that much in value. I gonna have to go back where I found my first,it was about 2 inches. Looked like a megalodon. It was on my land in a swamp and government dug a watershed ditch thru it. Gonna search more.
@@Doubledsccreepingtom yes they can be very valuable. I hunt them because I love the hobby not for money but I understand why so many people do. good luck to you on your hunt!
Holy moly it's a stonker
heck yah!
That's a dumptruck of a tooth. Damn! What a find!
dumptruck! I love it! Thanks!
Wow. Just wow !! Congrats.
thanks!
"And on that night, there was a burrito feast for the ages!" Congrats, you definitely deserve it!
i ate mexican til i was tired! thanks SP!
Where is this located? I’ve managed to find some Megalodon fragments in the Peacer River in Florida but have never found a whole tooth
Its near charleston south carolina. the peace river is good for megs, keep hunting eventually you'll find a whole one. you just have to try different spots.
Congrats man, you deserve it 💪
thank you!
Bam! Awesome teeth
thanks!
Congratulations! That beast is about 500 times bigger than they get in my area.
thank you! that beast is bigger than almost everything in my collection
Congratulations!!👏😍
thank you!
Holy hell you are killing me. Congrats on Feb beast
I'm super lucky thanks man
awesome finds, that large bone would be kool if you can find teeth bite marks in it
Im not sure if it has bite marks in it, IDK where diva put it. I do always look for bite marks on my bones though, you know I bring them all home!
That's so killer! Also quiet voices? Digging somewhere you're not supposed to?
thanks! No, we were allowed to be there. There were other collectors I didn't know close by so I kept as quiet as possible after such a find.
Do you sell your fossils
no I just hunt and build my collection, I don't sell my finds.
How much would the omega sized one go for
a lot, but i am not going to sell it. see David Dunn's comment & replies on this video
How big this Meg’ would have been?
probably 50-60 ft long
A Sperm whale tooth, A giant whale bone, and A Giant Megalodon tooth.
Look out on slash marks on those whale bones, it might tells a story from Miocene/Pliocene era.
i bring home most of the bones I dig up now just so I can look for bite marks like those. super cool to see that!
Dude. That's a giant. Just sitting here thinking of how big that shark was man. Do they ever make it to 7 inchs on the tooth?
they do get to 7 inches but not often. I only know of 2 seven inch teeth from the Charleston area and 2 from the Beaufort/Savannah area. All were scuba diving finds. I have never heard of anyone in the US digging a 7. They dug a few in Peru and Chile tho. I'm gonna keep trying!
@@blackriverfossilssomebody in Venice pulled a 7in Meg diving.
@@billz5004 thats a surprise! Was it recent? I seldom hear of larger meg teeth from down there.
@@blackriverfossils After a second look it actually came from SC. Measures 7 3/8”.
big meg
How are you. Can you contact me? I have a lot of these teeth, as well as complete jaws. I know a filled area
hi, did you find the teeth and dig them out?
I have pictures. And I have a lot
@@megalodon-ri3mq email me ditchweezil at blackriverfossils dot org
@@blackriverfossils ok
It looks like it’s 5 7/8 inches y the ruler in the box.
straight up and down, it does look that way but meg teeth are measured from the tip to the root lobe on the longest diagonal to get the size and its difficult to see that from the video. i measured this thing on 5 different rulers to make sure!
Imagine the shark that giant tooth came from!
i can't even imagine how big the shark was! It was a regal beast for sure
@@blackriverfossils it must have been fucking huge! Awesome find man!
@@-dystopic- definitely! Thank you!
Oh 6 1/8 inches
Not even kidding, how much money would it take for u to give me like one or two good locations 😂
elon musk could convince me. maybe
This will be the top 1 of the biggest megalodon tooth ever
in my collection that's true
Your previous record was 5.15.16 inches long megalodon tooth
Or 6.8 inch
And now you found a record breaking 6 1/8 inches long
yah its a monster! Same site as Diva's Dagger.
Perú megalodon tooth : hold my beer
there are some absolute beasts down there!
wow man I wish
keep trying there are still more out there
That is the biggest megalodon tooth you have ever found
its the biggest on any of my videos. I have found one slightly bigger but it was before youtube existed.
👁👃🏻👁
I have bigger
How big would the Host of that 6¹/⁸ been?!
I have heard the shark is 10 feet long for every inch of tooth, so if that's true this was a 60 foot shark. I wish we could see what they looked like! Can you imagine seeing one of these giants launching out of the water to devour a whale like modern great whites do when they hunt seals??
Perú megalodon tooth : hold my beer