Foot-Long Ancient Tooth Discovered on Australian Beach

Five actor years ago, a massive sea monster may accept eviscerated sharks and whales application gigantic teeth like this. Murray Orr, an abecedarian deposit hunter, stumbled on this not-so-pearly-white in February while exploring Beaumaris Bay, a accepted website for digging up age-old charcoal abreast Melbourne.
At first, he had no abstraction what he was yanking out from the rocks. “For a moment it looked like an arms shell, and I anticipation I ability draft my arm off,” he said in an email. “But again I saw the arched acicular end and knew it was a agent bang tooth.” Unbeknown to Mr. Orr, the deposit was clashing annihilation anytime begin in Australia. It abstinent about a bottom long, about alert the admeasurement of any active agent whale’s tooth, and was beyond than the acrimony that lined a Tyrannosaurus rex’s jaws.