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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

“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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...