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Twenty million years ago, the oceans were ruled by a predator unlike any other: the Megalodon. This colossal shark, the ...
This contradicts the theory that the main prey of megalodon was whales. Certainly megalodon could and did eat whales – but its diet as a whole was far more opportunistic.
The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago, and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth. But there's debate over what it looked like. Most scientists have described it as ...
A new study of megalodon teeth suggests they ate pretty much everything in the ancient oceans.
The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago, and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth. But there's debate over what it looked like.
Megalodon has long been depicted as a monstrous, super-sized predator resembling a colossal great white shark. However, a groundbreaking scientific study, recently published in the Palaeontologia ...
Fossil teeth of extinct megalodon sharks have grooves made by other megalodon teeth, hinting at violent encounters between these giant predators ...
In fact, many questions remain unanswered about Otodus megalodon — its scientific species name meaning “giant tooth” — since no complete fossil has ever been discovered.
After comparing portions of a megalodon’s vertebral column to over 100 species of living and extinct shark species, researchers now estimate the megalodon may have topped out at around 80-feet ...
The largest shark discovered to date — the monstrous Otodus megalodon — may have been a sleek, long-bodied leviathan. A fresh look at the extinct predator’s fossilized remains suggests its ...