A new study provides many new insights into the biology of the prehistoric gigantic shark megalodon (megatooth shark), which lived nearly worldwide 15–3.6 million years ago. Paleobiology professor ...

Like other sharks, the bodies of megalodon were cartilaginous, almost entirely soft tissue, and that doesn’t preserve very well. A dead meg would make an incredible feast, not to mention a dramatic ...

Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins, whales and large sea cows roamed the world’s oceans, topping the underwater food chain. Yet back then, any one of these creatures could ...

The true size of a gigantic prehistoric megalodon shark that ruled the oceans millions of years ago has been revealed for the first time -- and it had teeth as big as hands, and a fin as tall as a ...

Like sharks, megalodon had skeletons mostly made of cartilage, so we don’t have many fossil remains to go on besides ominous piles of huge, sharp teeth and a few vertebrae. That means scientists are ...

Megalodon sharks were among the largest and most formidable predators ever to exist, dominating the oceans millions of years ago. Despite their massive size, everything scientists know about them ...

A group of shark enthusiasts and scientists is hoping to make Maryland the first state in the nation to have a state shark.

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The megalodon, a giant shark that went extinct some 3.6 million years ago, is famous for its utterly enormous jaws and correspondingly huge teeth. Recent studies have proposed that the megalodon was a ...