![]() Risque jokes, sneaky ciggies with Jeremy Clarkson and a secret love of garden gnomes: A TV doc gives an insight into the Duchess of Cornwall's innate sense of fun 'If an animal as big as megalodon still lived in the oceans we would know about it.' It's definitely not alive in the deep oceans, despite what the Discovery Channel has said in the past. The researchers say that at the end of the Pliocene (2.6 million years ago), the planet entered a phase of global cooling, and the shark went extinct and could not survive in the cold depths of the ocean.Įmma Bernard, who curates the Museum's fossil fish collection (including fossil sharks), said: 'No. Mr Statham, who grew up in Great Yarmoth, Norfolk, a county over far from Bawdsey Beach, plays a rescue diver who discovers the 75-foot-long shark along with a group of scientists while making a rescue mission at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.īut the Natural History Museum has dismissed any theories that art could imitate life. ![]() In 2018, the movie The Meg, starring Jason Statham had a lot of people believing that the megalodon could still be lurking in the murky depths under the sea. This sharks' teeth have been found on every continent except Antarctica. ![]() He likes being outside.'įinding a megalodon tooth can be quite common as sharks can lose a set of teeth every one to two weeks, getting through up to 40,000 teeth in their lifetime. 'He's taken it into school and to Beavers to show his friends. Mr Shelton added: 'At the moment he's keeping it by his bedside. He's now keen to get back down to the beach to dig up more potential fossils. Sammy has earned an 'explorer' badge from his local Beavers group since finding the tooth. 'He is handling the tooth of the largest ever predatory shark and one that will be of interest to the whole palaeontology community.' 'This little boy is the first person to touch this in nearly three million years. Mr Garrod told the Great Yarmouth Mercury: 'I have looked for one since I was Sammy's age and never found one. 'There was one guy down there who's been looking all his life for a megalodon tooth and never found anything of this size.'Įvolutionary biologist Ben Garrod, who works at the University of East Anglia, checked pictures of the tooth and said it was once of just a handful found in Britain each year. 'It was huge and very heavy. I knew what it was but it wasn't until I took it to others looking on the beach that I realised the significance. 'Really we were looking for interesting shells on the beach but instead we got this megalodon tooth. His dad Peter Shelton, 60, a retired GP from Bradwell, Norfolk said: 'People have said it's a once-in-a-lifetime discovery.
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