While finding a megalodon tooth on a U.S. coastline isn't exceptionally rare, the prehistoric shark fossil that washed ashore this month in Sea Isle City is a 'human mystery,' a paleontologist says.
A routine family trip to the beach turned into an unexpected encounter with one of the most fearsome predators to ever walk the earth. Bo Bowers, an 11-year-old from Pennsylvania, was looking for shells with his father Mike on the beach in Sea Isle City, New Jersey, when the two suddenly noticed a dark object stuck in a narrow gap between the rocks.
The father tried to reach for the object, but his hand couldn’t fit into the crack. Bo, who has s…