SCIENTISTS have been shocked to find an extremely rare tooth of a dinosaur from millions of years ago in a shallow Southern creek.

The fossil was identified as belonging to a hadrosaur, a group of massive mammals that lived on land — but the tooth was found in an area that would have been underwater during the age of dinosaurs .

The "very rare, 84 million-year-old hadrosaur dinosaur tooth" was found in Shark Tooth Creek in western Alabama, according to the Alabama Museum of Natural History.

A group with the museum was on a summer trip looking through the local creek when they stumbled across the distinct artifact.

Dr. John Friel, the director of the museum, said he was surprised to find the tooth in a bed of gravel while accompanying the activity.

“I have been doing these trips for

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