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A shark tooth fossil given as a gift to Prince George is now at the center of a suspicious situation.
Malta’s culture minister, where the huge prehistoric tooth was found, said he plans to “get the ball rolling” to retrieve the fossil that natural historian David Attenborough recently gave to 7-year-old George, according to the newspaper. Malta Times.
Prince George received a dinosaur tooth from David Attenborough as a gift.
The tooth, believed to be about 23 million years old, came from a megalodon, an extinct species that was three times the size of today’s great white sharks.
“There are some artifacts that are important to Malta’s natural heritage and that ended up abroad and deserve to be recovered,” said Culture Minister José Herrera. Malta Times.
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The fossil is believed to have been discovered in Malta in the late 1960s.
Its existence became known over the weekend after Kensington Palace announced that Attenborough gave the tooth to George, the eldest son of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Herrera did not share how he intends to begin the process of potential recovery of the shark tooth fossil.
“No wonder we pay a lot of attention to historical and artistic artifacts,” Herrera told the newspaper.
Prince George and his family met David Attenborough at a special screening.
“However, this is not always the case in our natural history. I am determined to lead a change in this attitude.”
Attenborough, 94, gave George the gift during a visit to Kensington Palace for the screening of a new documentary, David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, about his career.
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