YouTuber finds fossilised great white shark tooth estimated to be over five million years old

YouTuber Morne Mamlambo stumbled upon a great white shark tooth estimated to be between five million and six million years old.

YouTuber Morne Mamlambo stumbled upon a great white shark tooth estimated to be between five million and six million years old.

The New Zealander films as he carefully removes the fossilised tooth from its natural rock casing using an air scribe.

He told Newsflare: "I was out fossil hunting on a beach on the South Island of New Zealand when I saw something glinting between two large rocks.

"I picked it up and it was a large shark tooth embedded in a piece of rock.

The geological layer is Late Miocene so between five million and six million years old which is used to estimate the age of the fossil.

"The tooth is from a great white shark, you can tell from the shape and the fact that it has faint serrations that have been worn away.

Based on the size of the tooth, the shark would have been about 16 foot (5 metres) in length.

It took two hours to free the tooth from the rock." Mamlambo also adds that this is the biggest shark tooth he has found in all his years of fossil hunting.

This footage was filmed on February 6.