Not a single tooth, not one whale bone with a modern megalodon scratch mark, not even a baby shark tooth has turned up in newer layers. For an animal that sheds up to 40,000 teeth in one lifetime ...

Turns out, the palm-sized tooth belonged to an animal that died at least 3.5 million years ago: an Otodus megalodon shark. "She told me she was wading in knee-deep water when she saw it and dove ...

Scientists have discovered that the long-extinct megalodon, also known as the megatooth shark, had a body temperature 7 degrees Celsius warmer than the surrounding seawater. This information might ...