CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — A dream came true for a South Carolina fossil hunter this week, when he found an enormous megalodon tooth in the Lowcountry.
Matthew Basak was doing some fossil hunting at a construction site in Summerville when he says he found this fossil shark tooth of a lifetime.
Basak, who guides fossil hunts professionally with the team at Palmetto Fossil Excursions, said he noticed what looked like a promising soil layer exposed in a drainage ditch at the construction site.
When he hopped down to take a closer look, Basak says he began probing and found one nice sized tooth before something else caught his eye in the muddy ditch bank.
A few inches below the first toot...