About 8-9 years ago, we were talking to someone on the beach who showed us a shark tooth they had found. That set the entire family to hunting, and we found several on that trip. We usually make 1-2 trips to gulf coast every year, and we spend a lot of our time hunting teeth now.
I particularly enjoy surf fishing, because even if the fish aren’t biting, I can still walk the beach collecting shark teeth…
This is the collection of several hundred I’ve found in the past few years:
The hamburger bean seems to be an oddity. I’ve only ever found the one. I was walking on one of the jetties at the Galveston Seawall and found it floating in the waves between a couple of the rocks. I didn’t know what it was (and wasn’t sure if I wanted to pick it up). When I took it back to the hotel room and looked at it closer, I thought it was plastic, but started searching online and found out what it was. Since then, I’ve seen them in gift shops, but have never found another.
Here are the largest teeth I’ve ever found:
…and here are some of the smallest:
I’ll be back at the beach again next week (all week long!) and am hoping to add a few more to the collection
Nice. I have done a bit of shark tooth hunting in streams in central western FL. It is quite a unique experience to find the teeth among the rocks and pebbles.
Nope… I’ve taken a UV light to the beach for nighttime combing before, but wasn’t really productive. Teeth don’t glow, and amber isn’t found on the Texas beaches. I did find a strange amber-colored stone that fluoresced but it is apparently a quartz-type rock.
I’ve spent lots of time trying to find shark teeth at night during the low tide, but have been 100% unsuccessful. I’ve used every combination of tint, high-CRI, multi-emitter, and zoomie lights, but have never found a shark tooth, even when conditions were otherwise ideal.
As a kid we usually went to a southern part of the Dutch coast (Cadzand Zeeland) a week every year, usually during a short school holiday
We kids liked it because if the fossilized shaft teeth and ray teeth we could find.
The coolest were the biggest ones l, about one and a half inch with two little teeth adjacent.
After many years we only had about 20 of those the reset were all similar to what you show here (but only black.
Similar to the larger Sand Tiger tooth in my picture above? You can see a tiny bit of a spike on either side of the main tooth, but one is pretty muchly worn or broken away.
Nice, are they fossil shark teeth ?
We sometimes get fossil crabs on the beach here.
The seed pod looks similar to ones we get on the east coast of Australia.
I think they’re from a Liana vine.
That is really cool, i would do the same. In western europe it is kind of boring in this regard. Would be awesome to find a tooth from a great white. Those hamburger beans are amazing, i guess they are from mexico?
you’re not worried that the shark will be looking for his teeth the same as you? I went to a fossil and gem show out here and I came across a vendor who has an undisclosed spot for fossilized teeth. they are black and some are as big as your hand. he says he dives to a fairly shallow spot, but there is zero visibility so he just feels on the bottom and scoops him up by the handful.
Shark teeth fossils are in abundance at nearly beach… Especially in Northeast Florida… I can find a handful of shark teeth to add my collection at any beach. I’m looking for shark teeth in Hunting Boots… :cowboy_hat_face: Good models I found here jonsguide. :person_facepalming: The shark teeth that we are collecting and finding are not the sparkling white teeth…
