A megalodon tooth as shown by Myrtle Beach Shark Tooth Adventures
Charles Shelton, Jr. delivers a lecture on shark tooth hunting at the North Myrtle Beach Area Historical Museum,
Charles Shelton, Jr. shares items from his vast collection.
Ashley Oliphant
customers sort through their finds from Myrtle Beach Shark Tooth Adventures, which offers seven tiers of buckets – or digs – to sift through, allowing their customers to find a variety of fossils, shark teeth, and more.
Ashley Oliphant displays shark teeth collected in Cherry Grove.
Tom Pierce at work in his business, Trader Bill’s Shark Tooth Cove, inside the Gay Dolphin Gift Cove in Myrtle Beach.
Gay Dolphin Gift Cove in Myrtle Beach
Tom Pierce
An assortment of shark teeth on the counter at Trader Bill’s Shark Tooth Cove. Owner Tom Pierce has worked in the business since 1969.
With so many varieties of shark teeth to be found, proper identification is key. Facebook groups like Myrtle Beach Shark Teeth or guidebooks like “Shark Tooth Hunting on the Carolina Coast” can be useful resources.
A customer holds a megalodon tooth, which Lauren Booth of Myrtle Beach Shark Tooth Adventures says is the biggest she has seen come out of a Megalodon Premium Bucket.
Booth displays finds from a Charleston dredge island.
Items found in dig packages from Myrtle Beach Shark Tooth Adventures can include megalodon teeth, fossil bones, small shark teeth, fossilized sea sponges, sea urchin spines and more.
