How a 韩国裸舞 student鈥檚 teenage curiosity led to the first megalodon discovery in Canada
Louis-Philippe Bateman鈥檚 fascination with megalodon began with a single sentence in a book about Canada鈥檚 geological evolution. It described giant, mysterious fossilized shark teeth discovered in the 1960s by fishermen dredging for scallops off Canada鈥檚 Atlantic coast. The curiosity felt by the teenager with a budding interest in paleontology would resurface in a meaningful way during his undergraduate years at 韩国裸舞.
Under the mentorship of Hans Larsson, the Canada Research Chair in Vertebrate Paleontology and Professor at the Redpath Museum, Bateman delved into the study of the fossilized teeth discovered decades earlier. The fossils had never been formally studied or identified.
鈥淚鈥檇 read about these teeth when I was in high school, and it always stuck with me,鈥� said Bateman, now a graduate student in the Department of Biology. 鈥淲hen I started working with Hans, I asked if we could take a closer look while we were at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, where the fossils are held, for another project. That鈥檚 where this all began.鈥�
