The 'strange-looking stone' found in Clacton was a tooth from a prehistoric shark, expert reveals.
A "strange-looking stone" found on a beach has turned out to be the tooth of a prehistoric shark, an expert said.
Twelve-year-old Kenzie, from Yoxford, Suffolk, found the tooth while digging at the beach in Clacton-on-Sea. Shark expert Prof Ben Garrod confirmed it belonged to Otodus Obliquus, "one of the first super predators" of the sea.According to Prof Garrod, who works as a broadcaster and evolutionary biologist at the University of East Anglia , Otodus Obliquus means 'teeth like an ear'.Prof Garrod said the shark was "one of the first super predators, just after the asteroid destroyed all the dinosaurs".
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