Since Steven Spielberg's “Jaws” in 1975, sharks have boasted a serious pop culture bite. But when it comes to dealing with a trendier toothy menace ... well, we’re going to need a bigger boat. The ...

Paleobiologist Dr. Kenshu Shimada has been fascinated by fossil sharks, including the giant Otodus megalodon, since childhood — he found his first megalodon tooth at 13 years old. So when he saw the ...

The ocean’s ultimate predator once hunted whales with ease. Here’s why the world’s biggest shark eventually vanished off the ...

Megalodon, a giant prehistoric shark, ruled the oceans millions of years ago. The conventional view of megalodon as simply a ...

While movie megalodon is heightened for entertainment, the real thing was still huge. Megalodon was a white or mackerel shark, related to today’s great white shark. Some believe the whale shark is ...

For millions of years, the apex predator of the oceans was a bus-sized shark known as the Megalodon. But around 2.6 million years ago they just disappeared, and nobody really knows why. So what could ...

A new study shows the Megalodon, a gigantic shark that went extinct 3.6 million years ago, was more slender than earlier studies suggested. This finding changes scientists’ understanding of Megalodon ...

July 14 -- At a length of 70 feet, armed with razor-sharp 7-inch teeth and with the strongest bite force of any known animal to ever roam or swim the Earth, the megalodon was no joke. With ...

A valuable 4-inch long tooth belonging to a Megalodon—the biggest shark that ever lived—has been taken from a remote and supposedly secret location at an Australian World Heritage site, according to ...

As one of the largest predators to have ever lived, megalodon captures people’s imagination – and for good reason. But was this apex predator simply a beefed-up great white shark, and is it still ...

1: The fossil tooth was thought to be the 'dragon's tongue' Megalodon's teeth can reach 10-12 cm in length, so people in medieval Europe thought that the fossils of Megalodon's teeth were petrified by ...

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