Some fossilized teeth from giant ancient megalodon sharks have unique scratches on them. These scratches, researchers believe ...

Emma Bernard, who curates the Museum's fossil fish collection (including fossil sharks), helps separate ... In order to tackle prey as large as whales, megalodon had to be able to open its mouth wide.

A megalodon tooth fossil in the National Museum of Natural ... where sunlight streams in to brighten her bronze back. Her mouth is open for visitors to glimpse three full rows of serrated teeth ...

However, fossils of megalodon teeth bearing bite marks from ... tooth being knocked loose but remaining in the shark’s mouth. During a subsequent bite, this loose tooth could have been struck ...

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.

Just in time for summer, the megalodon—the ancient, city bus-sized shark known as the “Megatooth”—has reared its ravenous snout. While the oceans are now safe from the Megatooth, which went extinct an ...

The new research out today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the megalodon’s warm ... the thermo-physiologies of fossil vertebrates of unknown metabolic origins ...

That's where this all began." The fossils turned out to belong to Otodus megalodon, the largest shark species ever to exist. This discovery marked the first confirmed evidence of megalodon in Canada.