MOLLY SAMPSON (9) has a unique hobby. Inspired by her dad’s love of fossils, this American girl enjoys searching for prehistoric shark teeth at her local beach and already has a collection of several.
And on Christmas Day she had an amazing find: a megalodon tooth that’s 13cm long!
For Christmas Molly’s parents had given her and her sister special cold-water waders and she and her sister wanted to test the suits.
The Calvert Cliffs area of Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, where Molly’s family live, is known for its abundance of prehistoric shark teeth.
The cliffs are layers of old sedimentary rock which used to be part of the ocean floor.
Now the breaking of the waves against the cliffs is slowly degrading the rock, exposing the prehistoric teeth.
On Christmas Day the tide was lower than usual, so Molly could walk out further than she usually would, and that’s where she found her treasure.
