It turns out this state we’re in is a hotspot for ancient fossils! With just a sifter, a trowel, and a sense of curiosity, ...

Visitors will encounter nine life-sized, scientifically accurate models, including the now extinct 270-million-year-old ...

Of all the spectacular museums in DC, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is my kids’ favorite! It is the one ...

National Megalodon Day is June 15 and celebrates the close relative to predatory fish, one that ruled the oceans 15 million to 3.6 million years ago. POST-RAIN HAMMERHEADS: Toxic, invasive hammerhead ...

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 ...

The massive megalodon was not hunting only large marine mammals such as whales as researchers widely thought, a new study of minerals in fossilized teeth has found.

The massive megalodon was not hunting only large marine mammals such as whales as researchers widely thought, a new study of minerals in fossilized teeth has found.

Massive megalodon tooth found off Florida coast: What ‘every fossil diver dreams about’ By . ... According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, megalodon teeth can exceed 7 inches in length.

The word megalodon actually means "large tooth," and the sharks' jaws were lined with 276 teeth, according to museum experts. The sea creatures most likely would have eaten meat including whales ...

Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, ... Dr. Stephen Godfrey, the curator of paleontology at the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Maryland, who was not involved with the study, ...

Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, ... Dr. Stephen Godfrey, the curator of paleontology at the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Maryland, who was not involved with the study, ...