"To have been on the receiving end of a megalodon attack would have spelled almost certain doom," Stephen Godfrey, the curator of paleontology at the Calvert Marine Museum in Maryland, told Mashable.

But Godfrey thinks a megalodon attack is the most plausible explanation. For one thing, there's the sheer magnitude of the trauma — one vertebra actually telescoped inward from the force of the ...

This is the incredible moment a diver finds an extremely rare Megalodon shark tooth off the coast of Venice, Florida on May ...

Contrary to widespread assumptions, the largest shark that ever lived – Otodus megalodon – fed on marine creatures at various ...

It's not a National Geographic lesson." Nobody should be worried about a megalodon attack Alten gets asked a lot if megalodons might still exist somewhere and while he won’t totally disqualify ...

[Related: This whale fossil could reveal evidence of a 15-million-year-old megalodon attack.] A different understanding of the megalodon’s body type could help inform how these giant extinct ...

Megalodon is one of the biggest predators ever to have lived. The creature is believed to have died out around 3.6 million years ago. But it dominated oceans during life, and could've reached ...

If you picture a megalodon, chances are you envision what ... which the sharks generally swam at a moderate pace while able to attack in quick bursts. “Gigantism isn’t just about getting ...

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