In the spring of 2015, doctoral student Victor Perez was working with high school students and casts of giant fish teeth. And not just any fish—it was the monster of the Miocene, Megalodon (Otodus ...

Megalodon is often depicted as an enlarged ... in southern Peru and date back to the last part of the so-called Miocene era, ...

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 new research out today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the megalodon’s warm-bloodedness may have contributed to its extinction. “Maintaining an energy ...