A new study reveals Megalodon wasn’t a picky eater, feasting on whatever prey was available at multiple levels of the food ...

National Megalodon Day is June 15 and celebrates the close relative to predatory fish, one that ruled the oceans 15 million ...

The changes in its dentition ... complete megalodon skeleton has ever been recovered, so most of what scientists know comes from fossilized teeth. It could bite into prey and shake its head ...

their fossilized bones often bear tooth marks, and Megalodon teeth often show significant feeding damage from striking bone due to feeding. Realistically the massive bite forces would have caused ...

See, most shark bite fossils document predation attempts or scavenging, where teeth left their marks on bones and other hard tissues. Finding Megalodon teeth with distinct serration gouges from ...

which don’t preserve the way bone does. Indeed, we only know that megalodon (Odotus megalodon) existed from the many teeth and a few vertebrae they left behind. Megalodon was the largest ...

Instead, minerals in fossilized teeth reveal that megalodon ... made of softer cartilage rather than bone, so they don’t fossilize very well. As for megalodon’s feeding habits, determining ...

A baleen whale was lunch for a giant shark — possibly a megalodon — some ... inflicted to the flipper bone, or radius, suggests one shark repeatedly sunk its teeth into the corpse, thrashing ...

a 3-D–printed cast of a nearly complete set of multiple Megalodon teeth from the same individual—what’s known as an associated dentition. The teeth themselves had been donated by private collector ...