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 ...

Megalodons were massive predators that ruled the world's oceans. Hugo Saláis via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0 For nearly 20 million years, megalodons prowled the world’s oceans. The massive ...

A fake shark story died on paper but lived online, where repetition, fear, and clever editing keep turning extinction into legend.

For nearly 20 million years, megalodons prowled the world’s oceans. The massive creatures, which could grow up to 80 feet long and weighed about 94 tons, used their large teeth and strong jaws to ...

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 ...

“Hungry World” is part of series our church’s preaching team did in the fall of 2010. The series was called “Full of Grace and Truth: Jesus’ Seven Signs and Seven Talks,” based on the material in the ...

Most shark fossils are just teeth—their cartilage skeletons usually decay long before they can fossilize. But in northwestern Arkansas, a series of geological sites known as the Fayetteville Shale has ...

A 13-year-old boy died on Thursday after he was mauled by a shark at a popular beach on Brazil's eastern coast, the state government said in a statement. The attack happened off the coast of Chifre ...

A third-century B.C.E. plaque unearthed at Ai-Khanoum in Afghanistan depicts the mother goddess Cybele in a chariot driven by Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. Thierry Ollivier / Musée Guimet via ...

Ancient people in southern Arabia hunted and ate sharks as a main food and nutrition source, new archaeological research from ...