This would have included animals as small as dolphins and as large as humpback whales. We have other evidence of megalodon's feeding habits in the form of fossilised whale bones. Some of these have ...

This would have included animals as small as dolphins and as large as humpback whales. We have other evidence of megalodon's feeding habits in the form of fossilised whale bones. Some of these have ...

Erin I. Garcia de Jesus The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s megalodon model is a 52-foot-long female based on a set of teeth discovered in the Bone Valley Formation in Florida.

Not surprisingly, megalodons ate big prey. Scientists know this because they’ve found chips of megalodon teeth embedded in ...

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 ...

Only a single nearly complete megalodon skeleton has ever been recovered, so most of what scientists know comes from fossilized teeth. It could bite into prey and shake its head side-to-side to rip ...

The megalodon is an extinct species of giant mackerel shark that lived about 23 to 3.6 million years ago. It was the largest shark to have ever lived and was thought to look like a supersized ...

More information: Louis-Philippe Bateman et al, The first Otodus megalodon remains from Canada and their predicted range limit, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1139/cjes-2024-0110 ...