The young female fossil hunter, who's been shark-tooth hunting since before she could walk, was searching for teeth Christmas morning when she found a 5-inch megalodon tooth.
It took nearly a decade, but Molly Sampson found what she had been searching for her whole life.
"She was over-the-moon excited," Molly's mother, Alicia Sampson, told USA TODAY on Wednesday."It was something she dreamt about finding. She's been shark tooth hunting since age 1 when she would crawl along the beach." While wading in the cold, knee-deep water, Molly said, she noticed the tooth, reached both arms into the water and grabbed it.Rare size for megalodon tooth"They were really excited," Molly said.
As she hunted for oyster mushrooms in the woods near her home Wednesday morning during a school field trip with her mother and sister, Molly explained she wasn't the first in her family to find a massive shark tooth.
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