The No. 1 fossil you're likely to find: ancient shark's teeth. Matoaka Beach is located in a geological area known as the Calvert Cliffs, just one of several great fossil hunting sites along the Bay.

Ludwig found her first fossil on the sandy expanse of Calvert County’s Matoaka Beach in 2017. It was the mouth plate of an ancient stingray, a tiny bit of fossil that can easily be mistaken for ...