Carson Konopelski, age 5, recently was named a grand prize winner at the Cobb County Gem and Mineral Show.
He lives in East Cobb and his entry at the show was a carcharocles megalodon, or “big tooth” shark.
Reader Heather Webb-Singh tells us the extinct shark’s tooth is seven inches long, indicating that it was a megalodon mammal between 45 and 50 feet long.
Carson, the son of Bob and Cindy Konopelski, donated his big tooth to his school of choice, the STEM lab at Rocky Mount Elementary School, and presented it to principal Dr. Cheri Vaniman.
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