Tired of fake Megalodon sightings? A shark scientist tears them apart one by one. From CGI monsters to misidentified sharks, ...

Megalodon, the terror of the Neogene, dominated its giant shark niche for just 20 million years before it disappeared from the world's oceans. And, during that time ...

Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins, whales and large sea cows roamed the world’s oceans, topping the underwater food chain. Yet back then, any one of these creatures could ...

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Fifty years after Jaws hit theaters, and there’s still a lot we don’t know about sharks, which lends to their reputation as mysterious predators. There’s even more we don’t know about ancient sharks, ...

A new study has uncovered surprising insights into the feeding habits of the largest predatory fish to ever roam the Earth's oceans, challenging long-standing assumptions about the prehistoric ...

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Contrary to widespread assumptions, the largest shark that ever lived -- Otodus megalodon -- fed on marine creatures at various levels of the food pyramid and not just the top. Scientists analyzed the ...

A mystery object picked up from a Mid-North Coast beach led to speculation it could be a Megalodon tooth but an expert has ...

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VENICE, Fla. (CBS12) — A Florida woman found a six-inch-long fossilized megalodon tooth while scuba diving off Florida's Gulf Coast. On Friday, Kristina Scott of St. Petersburg was scuba diving when ...

Megalodon is an extinct species of shark that lived from around 23 million to around 3.6 million years ago, during which time it occupied a prime position at the top of the food web, before being ...