Nine-year-old Molly Sampson added something new to her collection of over 400 fossils on Christmas Day: a five-inch, 15-million-year-old megalodon tooth
Molly Sampson, age nine, knew exactly what she wanted for Christmas this past December: a pair of insulated wading boots.
When she got her present on Christmas morning, the Sampson family fossil-hunting team -- Molly, dad Bruce and older sister Natalie -- immediately set out for the cliffs in the below-freezing temperatures.Molly Sampson, older sister Natalie Sampson, and dad Bruce Sampson on Christmas day before they went fossil-hunting.With the help of her present, Molly added something new to her collection of over 400 fossils: a five-inch, 15-million-year-old megalodon tooth.
They're hard to study because their skeletons were made of soft cartilage and don't typically turn into fossils. Their teeth are a little more common, She's been interested in fossil hunting since she was just a year old, thanks to her dad, who taught her how to look for fossils and would take her out to the beach to search for teeth.Bruce Sampson walks along a beach hunting for fossils with daughter Molly Sampson when Molly was a toddler. Molly, now age nine, recently found a 5-inch megalodon tooth at Calvert Cliffs State Park.
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