{"id":266589,"date":"2026-08-16T23:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266589\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T23:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:26:13","slug":"family-discovers-rare-megalodon-tooth-while-shelling-on-the-jersey-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266589\/","title":{"rendered":"Family discovers rare megalodon tooth while shelling on the Jersey Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A Pennsylvania family found a rare fossilized megalodon tooth on a New Jersey beach.Cape May Whale Watch and Research Center said it was a once-in-a-lifetime find.The megalodon was an enormous prehistoric shark that lived in the world\u2019s oceans millions of years ago.<\/p>\n

A Pennsylvania<\/a> family stumbled upon a rare find while shelling on the beach in Sea Isle City, New Jersey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Bowers family was searching for shells<\/a> when they discovered a fossilized megalodon tooth.<\/p>\n

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According to local news outlets, the family noticed something unusual during their outing.<\/p>\n

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A family found a megalodon tooth on megalodon tooth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Cape May Whale Watch and Research Center \/ FOX Weather)<\/p>\n

“As I pulled a shell out of the one rock, there was a hole in the rock,” Mike Bowers said. “I looked down, and I was just astonished, but I couldn\u2019t fit my hand in there. So, of course, I\u2019m screaming like a crazy man for my son Bo to come running over because of his small hand. And what did you see?” he added while holding up the tooth.<\/p>\n

The family later took the fossil to an expert who works with the Cape May Whale<\/a> Watch and Research Center, where it was confirmed to be a megalodon<\/a> tooth.<\/p>\n

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The organization said the discovery was a\u00a0once-in-a-lifetime find.<\/p>\n

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The Bowers family was searching for shells when they discovered a fossilized megalodon tooth.<\/p>\n

(Cape May Whale Watch and Research Center \/ FOX Weather)<\/p>\n

The megalodon was an enormous prehistoric shark that lived in the world\u2019s oceans<\/a> millions of years ago before going extinct approximately 3.6 million years<\/a> ago.<\/p>\n

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Scientists estimate that some megalodons may have reached around 60 feet in length, making them one of the largest predatory sharks known to have ever lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEE IT: A newly discovered golf ball-sized blue octopus species was discovered off the coast of the Gal\u00e1pagos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2600,84911,94,837,915,112463,28,30,29,104449,25029,18181],"class_list":["post-266589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-animals","tag-beaches","tag-history","tag-lifestyle","tag-new-jersey","tag-ocean","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-stay22","tag-wildlife","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}