<img class="styles__noscript__2rw2y" src="https://dsx.weather.com//util/image/w/screen_shot_2016-10-19_at_9_0.jpg?v=at&w=485&h=273&api=7db9fe61-7414-47b5-9871-e17d87b8b6a0" srcset="https://dsx.weather.com//util/image/w/screen_shot_2016-10-19_at_9_0.jpg?v=at&w=485&h=273&api=7db9fe61-7414-47b5-9871-e17d87b8b6a0 400w, https://dsx.weather.com//util/image/w/screen_shot_2016-10-19_at_9_0.jpg?v=ap&w=980&h=551&api=7db9fe61-7414-47b5-9871-e17d87b8b6a0 800w" > The megalodon tooth found on North Myrtle Beach a day after Hurricane Matthew barreled up the South Carolina coast. (Photo submitted.) (Photo submitted.)

A Virginia couple vacationing in Myrtle Beach earlier this month came upon the find of a lifetime while looking for shark teeth.

While walking along North Myrtle Beach a day after Hurricane Matthew brought destruction to the South Carolina coast, Nat and Peggy Campbell of Amherst, Virginia, found a Megalodon tooth, an artifact from what used the be the world’s largest shark.

"The day after Hurricane Matthew, we were out hunting for sharks teeth in North Myrtle Beach," Nat Campbell said in an email to weather.com.

Campbell said he and his wife Peggy enjoy hunting for shark teeth while on vacation but never dreamed they'd find such a unique and ancient tooth.

"I was in ankle deep water on a small slope and as the wave retracted I saw the tooth. My wife, Peggy thought it was a rock. When I picked it up, I saw the serrated edges and I knew that it was a shark tooth," Campbell said, adding that he had no idea that it was a megalodon or that it was millions of years old until he showed it to one of the employees of the Tilghman Resort.

The find was later confirmed by aquarist Brady Stoever of Ripleys Aquarium.

The tooth measured more than five inches long.

“They told me down there it was a Megalodon and that it’s millions of years old,” Nat Campbell told the Sun News . “The shark itself grew up to be 50 to 60 feet long. It’s just amazing to me that something that old could still be around.”

This tooth was valued at over $100 and is thought to be over 1,000,000 years old, the Sun News reported.

According to discovery.com, megalodons grew to be three times the size of the largest great white sharks.