A newly described fossil from northern Australia reveals an 8 meter mega-shark that hunted in the age of dinosaurs, long before the famous Megalodon ever evolved. By pushing the origin of giant ...

There is no mistaking the 15 cm (6 in) teeth of the largest apex predator, the megalodon. Getting bitten by this beast would ...

THE prehistoric “super carnivore” megalodon was bigger than previously thought, growing to a whopping 80ft and weighing 94 tons. The beast would have been four times bigger than the ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what’s now northern Australia, among the sea ...

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The Calvert Marine Museum is advocating for the designation of the extinct megalodon to be Maryland's official state shark.