VIRGINIA BEACH — One of the most fearsome predators to rule the seas millions of years ago may have left something behind at Virginia Beach’s North End.

Terry Siviter and his 5-year-old grandson, Jackson Fox, recently found a shark tooth on the beach there. Scientists think it could have belonged to a megalodon, an extinct shark, that lived in the ocean more than 3 million years ago.

It was a warm October afternoon when the two of them decided to scour the shoreline at 52nd Street.

“Jackson goes, ‘Pop-Pop, let’s go find rocks,’ which to him are gold and treasure,” said Siviter, 67.

He and his grandson often go to the beach where Siviter likes to surf, and Fox rides a boogie board. They catch fish in nets and hunt for sea glass.

On that October day, at the peak of low tide, they stood

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