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Tooth found on beach, Co Waterford.

  • 27-07-2011 11:09pm
    #1
    topazkk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭


    Our ten year old son found this tooth today on the beach at Boatstrand Co Waterford. I'm just wondering can anyone shed any light from what creature it came from, we're presuming a sea mammal of some sort. The second image we found via google images where someone had found one very similar on a beach in Devon and posted a query elsewhere as to it's origin (the only answer suggested some type of flint which I don't believe as it's hollow) also both have a marking that looks for all the world like a worm along their length. What does anybody think?


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  • #2
    topazkk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭topazkk


    Here's the other photo.
    Thanks.


  • #3
    spiralbound
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭spiralbound


    Are you sure it's not a weathered crab claw?


  • #4
    cuddlycavies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭cuddlycavies


    Yes or a lobsters pincer.


  • #5
    topazkk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭topazkk


    spiralbound wrote: »
    Are you sure it's not a weathered crab claw?

    It could well be but it seems and feels more like what I would expect a tooth
    to feel like, ie a bit weighty with enamel, would a crab's claw or leg be brittle and crushable? I wouldn't say you could crush this with a vise grips.


  • #6
    cuddlycavies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭cuddlycavies


    topazkk wrote: »
    It could well be but it seems and feels more like what I would expect a tooth
    to feel like, ie a bit weighty with enamel, would a crab's claw or leg be brittle and crushable? I wouldn't say you could crush this with a vise grips.
    Which is why you need precisely that to eat a lobster claw.


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  • #7
    Redonblonde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭Redonblonde


    Could be from a seal or a dog.


  • #8
    cuddlycavies
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    Redonblonde wrote: »
    Could be from a seal or a dog.
    A dog with pincers?:)


  • #9
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    topazkk wrote: »
    It could well be but it seems and feels more like what I would expect a tooth
    to feel like, ie a bit weighty with enamel, would a crab's claw or leg be brittle and crushable? I wouldn't say you could crush this with a vise grips.

    It's claw!!! There is a hard outer shell, or exoskeleton,
    that makes a crab a Crustacean and this is exactly what covers the claw you have.


  • #10
    KK4SAM
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    cuddlycavies wrote: »
    A dog with pincers?:)

    Definitely Doberman PinScHer :D:D


  • #11
    marlin vs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,631 ✭✭✭marlin vs


    KK4SAM wrote: »
    Definitely Doberman PinScHer :D:D
    Brilliant.:D:D


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  • #12
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Did look like a tooth, googled crab claws though and came up with this.


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