Thursday's finds:

10/14/2007 11:35:56 PM

meg?

10/14/2007 11:36:34 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalodon

10/14/2007 11:37:25 PM

oic

10/14/2007 11:37:43 PM

Not all those are meg teeth -- not sure what the others are. Guess I'll have to do some research.

10/14/2007 11:39:01 PM

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10/14/2007 11:43:00 PM

thatd be like me collecting dead gangster parts
oh look at me i bagged a crip leg

10/14/2007 11:46:27 PM

Hopefully I will find higher quality teeth soon...

10/14/2007 11:59:54 PM

When I was 5 my cousins found one at the beach... damn thing was like 6" long.

They let me hold it and it broke in half

10/15/2007 12:01:04 AM

How durable they are is dependent on the rock formations where the teeth were fossilized. The teeth coming out of NC & SC rivers tend to be very strong. These were found on dives off the NC coast and are probably relatively strong -- I scraped them with knives and forks to get the 'crud' off, plus soaked them in white vinegar. No visible scrapes or cuts from the cleaning at all.

Other rock formations tend to have very brittle teeth.

10/15/2007 1:11:00 AM

apparently megalodon teeth are valuable and can fetch up to $1,000 according to a program i saw on disc/nat geo.

10/15/2007 1:55:27 AM

i can't read

[Edited on October 15, 2007 at 2:44 AM. Reason : ]

10/15/2007 2:44:11 AM

I seem to recall reading something once--perhaps in Peter Benchley's Jaws--that there is no proof C. megalodon is extinct.

10/15/2007 3:14:20 AM

my friend is a paleontology phd student, and there is a book called "meg" that he loves. they were at one time going to make a movie out of it, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen soon.

10/15/2007 10:18:57 AM

Quote :

"Revised and Expanded new edition of the NY Times Bestseller. On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator in the history of the animal kingdom. The sole survivor of the mission, Taylor is haunted by what he's sure he saw but still can't prove exists - Carcharodon megalodon, the massive mother of the great white shark. The average prehistoric Meg weighs in at twenty tons and could tear apart a Tyrannosaurus rex in seconds. Taylor spends years theorizing, lecturing, and writing about the possibility that Meg still feeds at the deepest levels of the sea. But it takes an old friend in need to get him to return to the water, and a hotshot female submarine pilot to dare him back into a high-tech miniature sub. Diving deeper than he ever has before, Taylor will face terror like he's never imagined. MEG is about to surface. When she does, nothing and no one is going to be safe, and Jonas must face his greatest fear once again."

10/15/2007 10:30:21 AM

Yeah, Megalodon literally ate whales for breakfast.

It's estimated that they needed 1.5 tons of food per day to stay alive, minimum.

10/15/2007 11:48:50 AM

MEGLADON NEVER EXISTED

THOSE TEETH WERE PLACED THERE BY GOD TO DETERMINE WHO ARE TRUE BELIEVERS


PS - Might be kind of hard for a megladon to tear apart a tyrannosaurus rex if IT'S IN AN F-14!!!

10/15/2007 12:00:08 PM

Yay for Calvin & Hobbes.

10/15/2007 1:23:18 PM

how much are they worth?

10/15/2007 3:49:12 PM

These? Probably not too much. The large one has a cracked root and chips, others aren't complete, etc. They aren't the best examples of good meg teeth, but they're not too bad for my first try.

10/15/2007 3:55:57 PM

Quote :

"It's estimated that they needed 1.5 tons of food per day to stay alive, minimum."

No wonder they didn't make it--or did they? Cue spooky underwater-type music or the Jaws theme--your choice.

10/17/2007 1:19:39 AM