Find of a lifetime: I discovered huge fossil teeth and now they are radioactive

Holy clickbait batman! But really, I found some truly huge fossil teeth and they are in a vault until they are no longer radioactive 😀 I've been wanting to find some odontocete (toothed) whale teeth for a while now and I was really lucky to find these.

As far as I know, these are the first large fossil whale teeth found in my area, so this is quite a scientifically valuable find!

From the neutron scanned images, it looks like there is a number of teeth in there and some bone, maybe the mandible or rostrum. This is going to help me when I prep them as I will know roughly where to expect the teeth.

You can read more on the Dingo neutron scanner on the ANSTO website here: https://www.ansto.gov.au/our-facilities/australian-centre-for-neutron-scattering/neutron-scattering-instruments/dingo

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