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

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 ...

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 marks from ...

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

As one of the largest predators to have ever lived, megalodon captures people's imagination - and for good reason. But was this apex predator simply a beefed-up great white shark, and is it still ...

Ehret, Douglas J. Long, Morgan Churchill, Evan Martin, Sarah J. Boessenecker, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Previously, the prevalent belief, based on most megalodon fossils found in shallow-water ...

Scientists have discovered that the long-extinct megalodon, also known as the megatooth shark, had a body temperature 7 degrees Celsius warmer than the surrounding seawater. This information might ...

If you didn't know that you can hunt, find, and keep fossils in Maryland, then there's a woman from Baltimore County that ...

The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an extinct mackerel shark closely related to the modern great ...

The work could have implications for how aquatic species respond to our ... Discovery of 'Punk' and 'Emo' Fossils Challenges Our Understanding of Ancient Molluscs Jan. 8, 2025 — Researchers have ...

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 ...