When I was in New Zealand in 1975, I watched a sailboat get hauled out and saw a half a dozen shark shaped teeth about 8 inches long imbedded in the hull. The owner said something grabbed the boat and shook it a few times, like a dig with a toy. The local scientists cold not identify the species by the teeth, but the consensus was that it could have been a megalodon.
Fascinating! You should have held on to one of the teeth though. Perhaps DNA testing would have come far enough by now to make some guess at the nature of whatever they belonged to.
They weren't going to give me one, believe me I tried. I was just an interested bystander, not the owner of the boat. I'm sure they have been long forgotten by most (probably NOT the boat owner, though) and are gathering dust in some storeroom at the University.
Shame. Probably quite a few potentially big discoveries end up being forgotten about. Still, if whatever lived down there was identified, it would probably result in a bunch of clumsy biologists and adventurers catching and possibly killing it.
Thinks there's a possibilty that Megalodon still exists today?
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When I was in New Zealand in 1975, I watched a sailboat get hauled out and saw a half a dozen shark shaped teeth about 8 inches long imbedded in the hull. The owner said something grabbed the boat and shook it a few times, like a dig with a toy. The local scientists cold not identify the species by the teeth, but the consensus was that it could have been a megalodon.
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That must have been fascinating.
Fascinating! You should have held on to one of the teeth though. Perhaps DNA testing would have come far enough by now to make some guess at the nature of whatever they belonged to.
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They weren't going to give me one, believe me I tried. I was just an interested bystander, not the owner of the boat. I'm sure they have been long forgotten by most (probably NOT the boat owner, though) and are gathering dust in some storeroom at the University.
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Shame. Probably quite a few potentially big discoveries end up being forgotten about. Still, if whatever lived down there was identified, it would probably result in a bunch of clumsy biologists and adventurers catching and possibly killing it.
That's cool and creepy.