About

Built for hunters who study the shore.

Toothhound is the world’s most complete shark tooth hunting companion: live tide and wind based Hunt Scores, dossiers for 75 verified sites across 6 continents, an AI tooth identifier, and a private logbook that lives on your device.

Our promise

• Every dossier is sourced. If a site is in our atlas, the formation, epoch, and star species came from peer-reviewed paleontology, state geological surveys, or first-hand verified field reports.
• Hunt Scores are math, not vibes. Tide range, lunar spring proximity, daylight window, onshore wind stir, and storm exposure — all computed from NOAA tide stations and Open-Meteo, with the model published on our methodology page.
• Your finds stay yours. The logbook is stored locally in your browser’s IndexedDB. No account, no cloud, no tracking of what you find. See our privacy policy.
• Heritage sites are off-limits. Sites flagged heritage-only exist for study and observation, not collecting. We label them clearly and we mean it.

Editorial process

Each location dossier carries a verification tier:

• local-verifiedField-checked in the last 24 months by a contributor who has hunted the site.
• compiledSynthesized from cited public sources (USGS, state surveys, peer-reviewed literature, museum collections).

Tip line

Found an error? Hunted a site we don’t list? Want to add local-verified status to a compiled dossier? Get in touch. Every report is read.

Ethics

Hunt small, hunt legal, and leave the beach better than you found it. Always check current state, federal, and private-property regulations — they change, and Toothhound is a planning tool, not a permit. When in doubt: pack out trash, fill the holes, and report any vertebrate fossil to the local museum.

Last reviewed: April 2026