Most of the giant shark teeth found in Panama's Gatun Formation were from neonates or juveniles, leading researchers to propose that this was a nursery site. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

The Pisco Basin is a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species and was an extensive sea in ancient times, making it a reservoir of marine fossils.

A "serrated blade" found sticking from a rock in the United Kingdom has been identified as a "nearly perfect" prehistoric ...

A prehistoric food fight may have spelled the end for the megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived. A study of the ocean giant's fossil teeth suggests it had to compete for food with another ...

This giant shark is well-known for starring in the 2018 megalodon ... Almost all fossil remains of megalodon are teeth. Sharks continually produce teeth throughout their entire lives. Depending on ...

The large teeth indicate that Megalodon had powerful ... million-year-old skulls from extinct whales, revealing that the ...

Citizen science is evolving in classrooms, as students contribute to understanding the ancient ecology of sharks through ...

Charles Shelton Jr. has collected thousands of shark teeth, jaws and other fossils over the past three decades. He now shares ...

Peruvian paleontologists have revealed a 9-million-year-old fossil of Cosmopolitodus Hastalis, a precursor to the great white shark. Found in Peru's Pisco basin, the exceptional fossil includes a ...