The tail was part of a 52-foot-long, life-size model of the prehistoric shark that Staab was custom-building for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. The mighty megalodon ...

National Megalodon Day is June 15 ... according to the Natural History Museum in England. That's longer than a school bus. About the only sign of the megalodon's existence is its teeth, since ...

An exhibition of the giant prehistoric animals that roamed earth after the extinction of dinosaurs will be a summer hit in ...

(So if you’ve ever gotten your picture taken in front of a megalodon jaw at a museum, you were standing in front of a best guess, because no jaw for the meg has ever been found.) To fill in the ...

Dr. Stephen Godfrey, the curator of paleontology at the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Maryland, who was not involved with the study, said he was surprised by both megalodon’s proposed ...

The megalodon is the largest shark to have ever roamed the ocean, and its very name means "large tooth," according to the National History Museum. The species went extinct about 3.6 million years ago.