Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Do you buy Megalodon Teeth? Because of the amount of nearly undetectable repair and restoration done to Megalodon teeth sold on the Internet, I only sell teeth that I find personally. This protects both me and my customers from buying a tooth that may have changed hands many times and been repaired along the way. For this reason I do not buy Megalodon teeth. There is nothing wrong with restored teeth but the buyer needs to know exactly what they are getting since restored teeth are worth less than similar unrestored teeth. (Note: The few teeth that I sell that were not found by me were found by friends that I trust like Matty of Matty’s Megs. In all of these cases I note in the description that the tooth is found by someone else. )

Q: If you will not buy my Megalodon Tooth Where can I sell it? Craigslist and eBay are good sources for selling Megalodon teeth. If you call me about selling a Megalodon tooth all I will be able to tell you is to go to eBay or Craigslist.

Q: Can you tell me what my Megalodon tooth is worth? I would be happy to tell you what I think the retail value of a Megalodon Tooth might be. I can not do this over the phone with you describing the tooth to me. I need to see a clear detailed photo of both sides of the tooth and I will need to know the size of the tooth. For information about measuring teeth see our Collector’s Guide. E-mail the photos and measurements to me at bill@megateeth.com. If you call to find the value of your “nearly perfect tooth with a chipped root that is three or four inches long”, I will tell you to send me an e-mail with photos and sizes.

Q: Will you take me diving for Megalodon Teeth? It sounds like fun but fossil diving has risks. You dive in deep, zero visibility, mucky water and your equipment gets saturated with mud which can make your equipment not malfunction. You can not read your air gauges so you never know when it it time to come up. The currents are very strong and can drag you around the bottom. Stingrays and sharks swim in the water with you and you bump into them or they bump into you all the time. All the while boaters racing to get out to the beach zoom by overhead. What’s not to love? It really is a lot of fun. However, I am not set up to take out divers and I do not have the massive amounts of insurance that I would need to cover me when dropping someone into the murky depths in those conditions. So for these reasons I do not take out other divers.

Q: Where can I go to dive for fossils where the water is clear and I will have a good chance of finding Megalodon teeth? My two favorite places to go clear water Megalodon Tooth diving is Venice Florida and the Ledges off of North Carolina.

Venice: Aristakat Charters and other charter services take you into the Gulf in 20-30 feet of clear water and the divers there find a LOT of Megalodon Teeth. It is a great way for divers at all levels of experience to find fossils.

NC Ledges: Littlefeet Charters and others out of Wilmington NC take you into deep clear water to find giant Megalodon Teeth. You must be advanced and Nitrox certified because you are doing multiple deep dives. It is a two plus hour boat ride so bring your Dramamine. I recently went with Littlefeet Charters and HERE is what I found. I love diving the local muddy rivers for shark teeth but my trip with Littlefeet was the most fun I have had diving in years. It was AMAZING!!!!

Q: Where can I go to find Fossils if I am not a SCUBA diver? The best place that I know of is the rivers of Florida. World renowned author and fossil guide Mark Renz will take you on a trip of a lifetime and you will only get wet up to your knees (unless you find a big Meg then Mark may push you under). See Mark’s Books here. See info about Mark’s guided trips here.