A family's vacation turned into a real treasure hunt after they excavated a monster-sized megalodon shark tooth in South Carolina. Paul Columbia and his sons were in Summerville when they unearthed the 6.5-inch fossil, which is believed to be millions of years old. The family from Largo, Florida, traveled to the Palmetto State for their 12-year-old son's baseball tournament, Fox 35 Orlando reported.
They decided to make the most of their time in the greater Charleston area by taking a trip with Palmetto Fossil Excursions. The organization is a 'family-owned professional guided educational fossil hunting' team that leads tours and other fossil-hunting adventures, according to the Palmetto Fossil Excursions Facebook page. The Columbia family and their tour guide took part in the dry dig exploration at an excavation site referred to as 'The Lightning Site,' Fox 35 reported.
Columbia was out at the site with his sons digging around and gathering some mako shark teeth, but they hadn't found anything big. The father of two took a short break while his boys and the tour guide continued to dig around, Fox 35 reported. 'After his break, Paul Columbia entered the pit and recalled saying to them, 'Alright, pray to the meg gods that we hit the sought-after 7-inch meg,'' Columbia told the news outlet.
Can you say MONSTER?!?! Roughly 6.5' Megalodon tooth recovered at our Lightning Site on Saturday by a family visiting to celebrate their son's graduation!' the team captioned the post.
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