The massive megalodon was not hunting only large marine mammals such as whales as researchers widely thought, a new study of ...

A recent study has shed new light on the apparent eating habits of the megalodon, an extinct shark that dominated the ...

For decades, the giant ancient shark Otodus megalodon has loomed in our imaginations as a horror of the ancient seas — an ...

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

Scientists previously assumed the giant, prehistoric sharks mostly feasted on whales, but it turns out they probably weren’t ...

So there’s already a bias in this kind of fossil record.” To glean more about megalodon’s prey selection, McCormack and his coauthors looked at the giant shark’s fossilized teeth and ...

Megalodon was the largest predator in the oceans for about 20 million years before it went extinct, and that only happened ...

Kristina Scott found a 6-inch megalodon shark tooth while fossil diving in Venice. She said she’s been fossil diving for three years and has found things ranging from mammoth and sperm whale ...

Learn how a study of fossilized teeth has changed what we thought we knew about megalodon’s diet.

Scientists rethink the megalodon’s diet after examining minerals in their fossilized teeth (CNN) – A new study has found that the megalodon shark may have devoured both large and small prey alike.

The researchers examined fossilized megalodon teeth, which are more or less all that has remained of the cartilaginous fish that gave the shark its name, megalodon, meaning "big tooth." ...

So there’s already a bias in this kind of fossil record.” To glean more about megalodon’s prey selection, McCormack and his coauthors looked at the giant shark’s fossilized teeth and ...