{"id":266816,"date":"2026-08-17T11:34:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266816\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:34:40","slug":"pennsylvania-family-finds-prehistoric-megalodon-tooth-on-beach-in-sea-isle-city-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266816\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania family finds prehistoric megalodon tooth on beach in Sea Isle City, New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse ouIFx uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">The Cape May Whale Watch and Reserve Center has confirmed the discovery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, August 17, 2026 11:09AM<\/p>\n<p>The Bowers family was searching for shells in Sea Isle City when they made the discovery.<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SEA ISLE CITY, N.J. (WPVI) &#8212; A Pennsylvania family is back home with an unusual souvenir from their trip to the Jersey Shore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They found a prehistoric megalodon tooth!<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Bowers family was searching for shells in Sea Isle City when they made the discovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The father says he noticed something odd stuck inside a rock on the coastline. That&#8217;s when he called his son over to help pull it out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Cape May Whale Watch and Reserve Center has since confirmed the discovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The family says they intend to keep the tooth and keep telling the awesome story that comes with it.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cape May Whale Watch and Reserve Center has confirmed the discovery. Monday, August 17, 2026 11:09AM The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[112524,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-266816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-112524","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266816","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=266816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}