The massive megalodon was not hunting only large marine mammals such as whales as researchers widely thought, a new study of ...

Megalodon, the terror of the Neogene, dominated its giant shark niche for just 20 million years before it disappeared from ...

Megalodon was the largest predator in the oceans for about 20 million years before it went extinct, and that only happened ...

A charter boat captain found a whopping 6.25-inch long megalodon shark tooth in Florida. The tooth probably belongs to a giant megalodon that would have measured around 50 feet in size.

Learn how a study of fossilized teeth has changed what we thought we knew about megalodon’s diet.

Contrary to widespread assumptions, the largest shark that ever lived -- Otodus megalodon -- fed on marine creatures at various levels of the food pyramid and not just the top. Scientists analyzed the ...

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Officials from the Smithsonian said megalodon teeth can be found scattered on coastal beaches or offshore and are "especially large." Smithsonian experts said the giant creature lives in most ...