I found an ENORMOUS megalodon tooth -- or most of it, anyway -- while diving in Venice, FL last week. These are some slightly better photos than the two I've already posted here in my previous submission.

This prehistoric shark's tooth measures about four and a half inches across at the root, and, if it was intact, it would probably be seven inches long or greater. As it is, broken, it's about five and a quarter inches long... puts the meg teeth my husband and I found last year to shame! The captain of our boat, a retired geologist, thinks this is probably the largest tooth that's ever come out of Venice -- and it's the shark tooth capital of the world.

The fourth frame is a photo of this tooth next to one of my meg teeth from last year -- biiig difference! -- while the last frame shows a very scientific (haha) estimation of the intact size of the tooth. It's "upside-down" because I think this was a tooth from the mandible, or lower jaw, of the shark.

May 12, 2009.