Carbon dating of teeth fragments found in Brazil reveals that some species persisted for thousands of years longer than ...

Megalodon teeth are the largest shark teeth ever found and have sharp serrated edges. So when these sharks bit marine mammals ...

Fossil teeth of extinct megalodon sharks have grooves made by other megalodon teeth, hinting at violent encounters between ...

A McGill student’s fascination with the megalodon — a giant shark that used to live during the time of the dinosaurs — has lead to the discovery that the mighty beast might have once lived near Canada ...

Louis-Philippe Bateman's fascination with megalodon began with a single sentence in a book about Canada's geological evolution. It described giant, mysterious fossilized shark teeth discovered in the ...

The 183-million-year-old, 4.5-metre-long plesiosaur fossil, known as MH7, was first excavated from a quarry near Holzmaden, Germany, in 1940 but it was buried in a museum garden to protect it ...

Is Megalodon Just a Giant Great White? Posted: February 5, 2025 | Last updated: February 6, 2025 Debunked investigates the world's biggest myths and misconceptions. Each deep dive is an ...

A paleontologist holds a megalodon fossil tooth. Credit: Kristen Grace/FLMNH, CC BY-SA. The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal ...

Our study was one of the first to date Florida coastal deposits using fossil shark teeth and a technique that looks at variations in ocean strontium. Strontium is a chemical element that occurs ...

The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal environments evolved in ancient times, according to our newly published work. As paleontologists ...