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 extinction of the Megalodon is the reason we are safe in the ocean today.

Megalodons—the iconic extinct sharks that dominated the ocean millions of years ago—have been portrayed in Hollywood blockbusters and sci-fi novels as oversize great white sharks. But new research ...

The megalodon was one of the biggest fish that ever lived, with seven-inch-long teeth and jaws with 40,000 pounds of bite ...

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Fossils have a way of captivating everyone, no matter their profession or the species unearthed, but there’s something about Megalodon that grips the imagination like no other. Fossilized shark teeth ...

Shark biologists now say a lemon shark, like this one, is a better model of the extinct megalodon's body than the great white shark. The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white ...

As paleontologist Stephen Godfrey walked into the Calvert Marine Museum one morning in April, staff members congratulated him. In a way, he brought an extinct species back to life. Two days earlier, ...