Kristina Scott was diving off the coast of Venice, known as the "Shark Tooth Capital of the World," when she spotted ...

PaleoCris and I set out once again on the hunt for Megalodon Shark teeth. We spent some time in a fairly new creek to us and ...

Venice is known as the shark tooth capital of the world. People come from near and far to try and find shark teeth, and some ...

But that’s not true. Megalodons are extinct. They died out about 3.5 million years ago. And scientists know this because, once again, they looked at the teeth. All sharks – including megalodons – ...

For comparison, that’s nearly three times the size of the largest great white sharks swimming today. This monumental size enabled the Megalodon to command the ocean with unrivaled dominance. Otodus ...

Even using the more conservative estimates, megalodon would have been over twice the size of the largest great white shark on record. Because of their huge size, megalodons had huge teeth, which are ...

Artistic reconstruction of Otodus megalodon along with other marine fauna. Hugo Saláis, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The deep blue sea holds many secrets, but none as jaw-droppingly fascinating ...

It’s easy to forget just how big a blue whale is until you compare it to a human ... Megalodons were the largest sharks ever, reaching lengths of up to 80 feet. ©Herschel Hoffmeyer/Shutterstock.com ...

Paleocris and myself went out for another hot summer day of driving around looking for fossils. The finds were not as ...

Scientists have discovered that the long-extinct megalodon, also known as the megatooth shark, had a body temperature ... in the megalodon’s fossil teeth called apatite. A tooth’s isotopic ...

Shark teeth dating back at least 145 million years have been discovered during rail work investigations. East West Railway Company (EWR Co) has begun the first phase of ground work between ...

Roaming the ancient seas eons ago, the megalodon shark eviscerated its prey with jaws that were 10 feet wide. Warpaintcobra/iStock via Getty Images Plus ...