Found giant shark teeth twice as long as white sharks on the Australian coast

The teeth of prehistoric monster sharks found on the coast of Australia are twice as big as white sharks today and have attracted special attention.

According to Channel News Asia, this finding is especially noticed by scientific lovers and prehistoric learners.

The man named Philip Mullaly found the ' giant ' tooth of the giant shark in the famous Great Ocean Road, about 100km from Melbourne.

Giant prehistoric shark teeth remain intact.

'I was walking on the beach, looking for fossils when I discovered a part of my teeth protruding out, next to a rock , ' Mullaly said. 'I feel very surprised because I think this is an important finding that people especially care about.'

Mullaly contacted the Victoria Museum to learn about the shark that possessed this tooth. Paleontologist Erich Fitzgerald confirmed that the 7cm long tooth was from an ancient giant shark named Carcharocles angustidens .

This shark once lived in the ocean off Australia 25 million years ago. They often eat small whales and penguins. Ancient sharks are 9 meters long, twice the size of today's white sharks.

Thus, this new discovery has nothing to do with the 30-meter-long megalodon monster shark that once lived 3 million years ago, and many today still believe they are alive.

"Fossil teeth of Carcharocles angustidens are of international importance when only 3 sets are found worldwide, and this is the first set found in Australia , " Fitzgerald said.

Fitzgerald explains that people often find only one tooth of an ancient shark, but it is very difficult to find others on the same shark.

Giant prehistoric sharks are twice as long as white sharks.

That's because sharks often lose and change teeth every day. At the same time, cartilage bone, constituents of skull and jaw bone, are not easily fossilized.

Fitzgerald led a group of paleontologists and volunteers to the place where Mullaly found shark teeth, and collected another 40 teeth.

Most of them belong to ancient giant sharks, but there are also a few smaller teeth belonging to the species that still exist today.

Victoria Museum palaeontologist Tim Ziegler said that the teeth of 6-bearing sharks belong to many different species. They may be lost during the process of this fish carcassing Carcharocles angustidens.

"The discovery of the teeth of 6-year-old shark from prehistoric times suggests that they have lived by eating animal carcasses for tens of millions of years," Ziegler said.