Ptychodus was one of the largest prehistoric sharks, with some estimates placing its size up to 33 feet in length! Like today’s whale sharks it had a mouth full of teeth that were used to crush ...

One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

According to their results recently published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the culprit is clear: a killer whale ...

Megalodon teeth are the largest shark teeth ever found and have sharp serrated edges. So when these sharks bit marine mammals ...

Just in time for summer, the megalodon—the ancient, city bus-sized shark known as the “Megatooth”—has ... That puts Megatooth, and probably some of its ancestors, at the top step of the prehistoric ...

Recent findings used wildlife forensics and citizen science data to provide the first confirmed evidence of killer whale ...

Based on DNA analysis from the bite wounds on the carcass of a large white shark washed ashore near Portland in Victoria in 2023, the Flinders University-led study identified that killer whales were ...

Estimates suggest megalodon actually grew to between 15 and 18 metres in length, three times longer than the largest recorded great white shark. It may have been comparable in length to today's ...

Different sharks use different strategies to eat. Like many actual whales, the whale shark filter-feeds, straining teeny plankton from up to 400,000 gallons (1.5 million liters) of filtered water ...