Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lead study author Jeremy McCormack of Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, holds up a fossilized megalodon tooth. - Uwe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The biggest, most formidable shark to have ever roamed the ocean may have been even larger than previously thought, according to a ...

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(CNN) — Paleobiologist Dr. Kenshu Shimada has been fascinated by fossil sharks, including the giant Otodus megalodon, since childhood — he found his first megalodon tooth at 13 years old. So when he ...

A fossilized megalodon tooth has been recovered more than 10,000 feet below the surface of the central Pacific Ocean, marking the first time such a specimen has been found in place at this depth.

The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago, and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth. But there's debate over what it looked like. Most scientists have described it as a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The ocean’s ultimate predator once hunted whales with ease.

The new exhibit showcases some of the earliest examples of animal armor in simple creatures, but a lot has changed in those 500 million years. “This exhibit starts with some of the earliest armor ...

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(CNN) — What scientists understand about the voracious feeding habits of the colossal megalodon could be up for some revision. The prehistoric predator that went extinct about 3.6 million years ago ...