Sharks!

There are a lot of sharks off the coast of North Carolina.  There always have been apparently.  You can find fossilized sharks teeth in the local gravel!
To learn more about this, we visited the Aurora Fossil Museum.  Follow this link to see some amazing fossils.
The museum is filled with items unearthed at Potash Corporation. It is a phosphate quarry near the town of Aurora.  As they mine for phosphate, they turn up these amazing fossils.

the museum has displays of fossils from the many creatures who have called the area home for the last many millions of years.
In digging through one of their gravel piles during the recent Aurora Days festival we found these sharks teeth.  It took just a couple of hours to unearth these.