Good morning and welcome to Kid News, I'm Kim, today is Wednesday, August 9, 2023.

And we begin with a 13-year-old in England finding a toothy treasure from the biggest

shark that ever swam the seas.

It's a 5-inch chopper from a megalodon, a giant prehistoric beast that grew to nearly

60 feet long and went extinct 3.5 million years ago.

Ben Evans says he and his dad dug it out of a small hole between three rocks at Walton

on the nays beach.

I've watched people on YouTube finding them in places like Florida, Ben told the Good

News Network, but I never thought I would find one in England.

Experts have confirmed the tooth is legit, but where it came from is up for debate.

They say the condition is so good, maybe too good, that it might be a restored fossil

that someone bought in the store then lost in the sand.

The United States is getting a new national monument.

It's not a statue, it's a space, specifically 1,562 square miles around the Grand Canyon.

Yesterday, President Biden traveled to Arizona to make the announcement, which preserves the

area and protects it from uranium mining.

The region has significant cultural meaning to Native Americans, and they've long asked

for an official designation to protect it for future generations.

Doctors orders a wayward baby walrus in Alaska is currently getting rare around the clock

hugs from humans.

The month old calf was found alone last week, four miles from the nearest sea on the

North Shore.

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