The early shark tooth hunter gets the ultra-rare modern tooth! We found this lemon shark tooth (only the third modern tooth in my entire collection of 10,000) at the break of dawn one morning this past May on the northern end of Topsail Island, NC. The completely white tooth and root indicate that it is not fossilized but could have actually been in the shark's mouth that morning. As the old song goes, "Only the curious have something to find."