Watch: Texas Student Discovers ‘rare' Prehistoric Shark Tooth Near Plano West High

When several Plano West High School students dug in a nearby creek bed with their biology class, they made a rare archeological find.Junior Lillia Blasius and senior Ashley Chanpong chose to search where none of the other students went and it paid off, the school's student paper, BluePrints, reports. Lillia discovered a tooth believed to be from an 18-foot shark that lived about 85 million years ago, WFAA-TV (Channel 8) reports. "It was peeking out of the surface and she saw the tooth shape and picked it up," Ashley said.  Continue reading...

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