Boy Finds Shark Tooth in Michigan Waters

A 16-year-old Michigan boy found an ancient 3-inch shark tooth while snorkeling in the St. Clair River, he told reporters.

David Wentz said he took the mysterious petrified item to his father, who recognized it immediately because he frequently watched the Discovery Channel, the Port Huron (Mich.) Times Herald reported.

The tooth … comes from an extinct species called Carcharodon megalodon, or the ‘megatooth’ shark, said Michael Gottfried, a Michigan State University vertebrate paleontologist said of Wentz’s August 2007 finding.

The 2 million-year-old megalodon reportedly grew to more than 60 feet long and consumed some 1,500 pounds of food daily.

I can’t say just how it came to be in the St. Clair River, but I can assure you that there aren’t any sharks with 3-inch teeth living there now, Gottfried said.