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Vacationing Father and Son Pull Massive Megalodon Tooth From New Jersey Shore

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During a walk on the Jersey Shore, a father and son from Pennsylvania found a fossilized megalodon tooth lodged in a tight opening in a jetty. Here's what to know While in Sea Isle City, 42-year-old Michael Bowers noticed the tooth stuck in a slim gap in a jetty, the New York Post reported. The opening was too small for Bowers to fit his hand inside, but his 11-year-old son Bo was able to reach into the crevice and remove the fossil. They took t…

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The Bowers family is on the beach in New Jersey when their father and son make an unusual discovery, but only eleven-year-old Bo can recover the special fossil. How did the huge tooth get there?

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An 11-year-old boy and his father made the discovery of a lifetime while on vacation in the US state of New Jersey when, while searching for shells, they came across a fossilized tooth of a megalodon, one of the largest sharks that ever lived and went extinct more than three million years ago.

An 11-year-old boy and his father found a fossilized tooth of a megalodont, a species of giant shark that lived on earth 3.6 million years ago. The discovery was made on a beach in Sea Isle, New Jersey, United States. After finding the fossil, father and son took it to the Cape May Whale Research Center, for analysis of experts, who confirmed that the tooth, which measures about 10 centimeters, belonged to a megalodont. For the research center, …

Michael Bowers and his son, Bo, were walking on the beach when they discovered something unusual: a tooth from a prehistoric megalodon that became extinct about 3.6 million years ago. The find was lodged in a crevice in a stone seawall in Sea Isle City, New Jersey (USA).

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vt.co broke the news on Friday, August 21, 2026.
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