The Megalodon, the largest shark to have ever lived, has been extinct for around 3.6 million years. Despite this, there is an ...

Georgia’s coastline offers a surprising window into the prehistoric past, where fossilized shark teeth—ranging from tiny ...

Megalodons have been portrayed as gigantic great whites, but new research suggests they were more svelte and less agile ...

Visitors will encounter nine life-sized, scientifically accurate models, including the now extinct 270-million-year-old ...

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It's been 50 years since Steven Spielberg's movie Jaws first cast a terrifying shadow across our screens.At a low point ...

As Jaws celebrates its 50th anniversary, Science News explores the vast range of shark sizes, from megaladon to the dwarf lanternshark.

Megalodon teeth are the largest of all shark species. With teeth that can measure up to the size of a human hand, it is easy to imagine just how enormous these ancient sharks were. However, there is ...

While Megalodon is probably the most famous extinct shark, it lived relatively recently, showing up about 23 million years ago and vanishing about 2.6 million years ago. Megalodon would almost ...

The largest shark to ever live was likely the mighty megalodon ( Otodus megalodon ), which swam in prehistoric oceans from 23 to 3.6 million years ago and is now definitely extinct. Paleontologists ...

But nobody has ever found a megalodon tooth that’s less than 3.5 million years old. That’s one of the reasons scientists believe megalodon went extinct then. What’s more, megalodons spent much of ...