The Calvert Marine Museum is advocating for the designation of the extinct megalodon to be Maryland's official state shark.

What if Megalodon never went extinct - and the ocean’s greatest predator kept evolving right into the modern day? In this ...

The curious minds at What If explore a world where Megalodon sharks had never gone extinct, imagining how these enormous predators would shape oceans, ecosystems, and human activity today.

An animatronic dire wolf looks around then tilts its head to greet you in the lobby. An animated megalodon shark circles its prey in a conference room made of floor-to-ceiling screens before striking ...

THE prehistoric “super carnivore” megalodon was bigger than previously thought, growing to a whopping 80ft and weighing 94 ...

Maryland lawmakers introduced legislation that would make the megalodon the state's official shark. If the proposed House Bill 97 and Senate Bill 135-- sponsored by State Del. Todd Morgan and State ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Megalodons went extinct about 3.6 million years ago, but their fossils are all over Maryland. While the mighty megalodon is not ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The ocean’s ultimate predator once hunted whales with ease.

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s greatest extinction. Tens of thousands of fossils reveal fully aquatic ...

Before the famously huge megalodon, another fearsome ocean predator roamed the seas. According to a paper published earlier this year in Communications Biology, a massive shark that exceeded the size ...

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