Turns out, the palm-sized tooth belonged to an animal that died at least 3.5 million years ago: an Otodus megalodon shark. "She told me she was wading in knee-deep water when she saw it and dove ...

For centuries scientists have imagined megalodon as an oversized great white shark. But would another shark provide a better ...

While our bones are coated in the mineral calcium phosphate, shark skeletons are made entirely from softer cartilage like our nose and ears. Megalodon teeth have been found on every continent except ...

Just in time for summer, the megalodon—the ancient, city bus-sized shark known as the “Megatooth”—has reared its ravenous snout. While the oceans are now safe from the Megatooth, which went extinct an ...

That puts the megalodon at odds with other ancient shark species that swam alongside ... to the mystery of why the species, Otodus megalodon (giant tooth), disappeared so suddenly.

The now-extinct megalodon shark may have been larger than first believed, reaching lengths of 80 feet (24.3 meters), according to a new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica last week. This is ...

Teeth found by brothers Otto and Emmit during a visit to Bawdsey in Suffolk could be up to 60 million years old, a UEA shark expert believes.