Mega-Shark Teeth Discovered in Austraila And It Is Twice The Size of a Great White

Fossil hunter Philip Mullaly was strolling along the beach in Victoria Australia when he saw it: a glint in a boulder with a quarter of a tooth revealed.

“I was immediately excited, it was just perfect and I knew it was an important find that needed to be shared with people,” Mullaly explained.

He had found a fossilized shark tooth. And not a normal shark tooth, a mega-shark tooth, twice the size of a Great White tooth at 7 centimeters (2.7 inches) long. Upon closer inspection, there was a whole set of these gigantic mega-shark teeth.

The teeth belonged to the Great Jagged Narrow-Toothed Shark (Carcharocles angustidens), a type of shark that roamed oceans near Australia 25 million years ago.

The Great Jagged Narrow-Toothed Shark grew to twice the size of a Great White Shark, sometimes nine meters long.

The discovery of a full set of fossilized shark teeth like this is a find of international importance.

“[T]hey represent one of just three associated groupings of Carcharocles angustidens teeth in the world, and the very first set to ever be discovered in Australia,” said Erich Fitzgerald, senior curator of vertebrate paleontology at Museums Victoria. The teeth are now housed in that museum.

The Great Jagged Narrow-Toothed Shark lived during the Oligocene ephoch and was a top predator. They preyed upon and ate small whales.

They ate whales, Yes Whales!

The teeth are on display at Melbourne Museum as part of National Science Week starting from Thursday 9 August.