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

The massive Megalodon had a staggering 100,000 kilocalories-per-day nutritional demand—which it didn't always fill as ...

Florida was a very different place ... tooth depends on its size, color, and the quality of the fossil, and there are websites where you can find megalodon teeth selling for over $7,000.

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 ...

Indeed, we only know that megalodon (Odotus megalodon) existed from the many teeth and a few vertebrae ... Zinc isotopes get absorbed at different rates as they travel up the food web, so you ...

More there’s something about Megalodon that grips the imagination like no other. Fossilized shark teeth are some of the most abundant remnants of prehistoric oceans, providing scientists with ...

Otodus megalodon was the largest ... The researchers extracted zinc from the fossil teeth, an element that occurs in atomic variants (isotopes) of different weights. Zinc is ingested with food ...

A recent diving trip off the coast of Florida resulted in an ancient discovery. Kristina Scott found a 6-inch megalodon shark tooth while fossil diving in Venice. She said she’s been fossil ...

Megalodon teeth found on land are typically between ... “We could not believe the size, the color or our luck,” Columbia said to the media. “What started as a baseball tournament trip ...

Instead, minerals in fossilized teeth ... many different species,” McCormack said. “While certainly this was a fierce apex predator, and no one else would probably prey on an adult megalodon ...