Instead, minerals in fossilized teeth reveal that megalodon might have been an opportunistic feeder to meet its remarkable 100,000-calorie-per-day requirement. “When available, it would probably ...

The study helps confirm the hypothesis that the megalodon was not “merely a gigantic ... an educator at SeaWorld San Diego and a researcher on the project. Instead, the shark could have closer ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If you picture a megalodon, chances are you envision what amounts to a gigantic great white shark. The image is understandable ...

(CNN) – A new study has found that the megalodon shark may have devoured both large and small prey alike. Previously, it was believed the prehistoric predator only hunted large animals ...

Yet back then, any one of these creatures could become prey to the ocean's fiercest apex predator: the megalodon, a giant shark with massive teeth and a body the size of a whale. In many ways ...

But not all paleontologists agree. This illustration of megalodon may be wrong. The ancient predatory shark went extinct around 3.6 million years ago and has been compared to modern great white ...

Artist Gary Staab assembles the massive megalodon. A scale model at the bottom right shows what the finished creature will look like. Ryan Donnell When I reached the world’s pre-eminent sculptor ...

A necklace carrying the tooth of a prehistoric shark known as a megalodon has been discovered ... The necklace was discovered by Magellan during a project to produce a full-size digital scan ...

(CNN) – A new study has found that the megalodon shark may have devoured both large and small prey alike. Previously, it was believed the prehistoric predator only hunted large animals, like whales, ...