Aren't sharks scary enough? The biggest of them all — the megalodon — has been dead three million years. And, yes, if they were alive now, paleontologists would say — get out of the water, now! Huge.

A 52-foot, life-size model of a Carcharocles megalodon shark is now on display in the National Museum of Natural History’s newly opened dining facilities. Erin I. Garcia de Jesus The Smithsonian ...

An associated specimen of the large fossil lamnid shark Carcharodon angustidens from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand's South Island preserves approximately 165 teeth, and 32 vertebral centra, making ...

Amateur fossil enthusiast Phil Mullaly knew he had found something special when he spotted something glimmering in a boulder. Mullaly was walking along Jan Juc, a renowned fossil site along Victoria's ...

Aim: Given its catastrophic consequences, the extinction of apex predators has long been of interest to modern ecology. Despite major declines, no presentday species of marine apex predator has yet ...

There are stories in scat, and this piece of poo tells a tale of a giant shark's attempt to eat it. Professional diver Mark Stitzer was diving near Charleston, South Carolina looking for megalodon ...

A well-preserved fossil of a four- to five-million-year-old great white shark species, complete with 222 sharp teeth, suggests the ocean giants were once even bigger, and that they evolved from the ...

We just can’t let Carcharocles megalodon rest. From Peter Benchley’s JAWS to the dreck that regularly bobs up to the surface of basic cable “science” channels, we can’t seem to resist invoking the ...

Few predators terrorize our imaginations as fiercely as the great white shark. The immense fish is sublimely attuned to an environment that is alien to us, and, despite the rarity of accidents, the ...

What started as a regular day at the beach for Philip Mullaly ended with a key scientific discovery. Mulally found a set of shark teeth dating back 25 million years, belonging to a "megatooth" shark ...