The megalodon is an extinct species of giant mackerel ... so they don’t leave behind bony fossils that can be preserved. As a result, scientists were left with only fossilized shark teeth ...

The largest are around 7 inches long. A megalodon tooth fossil in the National Museum of Natural History's collection was found in Beaufort County, North Carolina. Smithsonian Institution Coupled ...

Its serrated, blade-like teeth were ideal for such hunting, and evidence of megalodon’s predatory behavior is abundant in the fossil record. However, fossils of megalodon teeth bearing bite ...

Emma Bernard, who curates the Museum's fossil fish collection (including fossil sharks), helps separate fact from fiction. O. megalodon was not only the biggest shark in the world, but one of the ...

Ludwig found her first fossil on the sandy expanse of Calvert County’s Matoaka Beach in 2017. It was the mouth plate of an ...

The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal environments evolved in ...

“Maintaining an energy level that would allow for megalodon’s elevated body temperature ... useful in inferring the thermo-physiologies of fossil vertebrates of unknown metabolic origins ...

For example, our knowledge of Megalodon's existence comes from the fossil record, which reveals teeth designed for hunting dolphins and whales. These teeth occur in the fossil record between 15 ...

The megalodon lived in most parts of the ocean (except near the north and south pole). The most northern fossils are found off the coast of Denmark and the most southern in New Zealand.

That’s tens of millions of years older than the better known — and monstrously large — megalodon shark. Fossil hunters discovered the tooth “eroding” from a block of sandstone on the ...

Emma Bernard, who curates the Museum's fossil fish collection (including fossil sharks), helps separate fact from fiction. O. megalodon was not only the biggest shark in the world, but one of the ...