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

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.

Megalodon was the largest predator in the oceans for about 20 million years before it went extinct, and that only happened about 3 million years ago. That’s practically last week on geologic and ...

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — What scientists understand about the voracious feeding habits of the colossal megalodon could be up for some revision. The prehistoric predator that went extinct ...

As for megalodon’s feeding habits, determining what it ate based on fossil evidence poses challenges, according to McCormack. “We know that they fed on large marine mammals from tooth bite ...

Megalodon dispatched its prey with a ferocious bite and lethal, serrated teeth that could reach up to 7 inches (18 centimeters) long — the size of a human hand.

What megalodon really ate to meet its 100,000-calorie daily requirement, according to a new study. By CNN Newsource. Published May 27, 2025 12:37 PM . By ...

What megalodon really ate to meet its 100,000-calorie daily requirement, according to a new study. By CNN Newsource. Published May 27, 2025 11:37 am . By ...

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.