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October 17, 2022 at 11:29 AM. Screengrab from Nautilus Live's Facebook. A massive shark tooth scooped from the central Pacific Ocean floor is likely millions of years old, researchers said. The ...
Megalodon. Otodus megalodon (/ ˈmɛɡələdɒn / MEG-əl-ə-don; meaning "big tooth"), commonly known as megalodon, is an extinct species of giant mackerel shark that lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago (Mya), from the Early Miocene to the Early Pliocene epochs.
Megalodon sharks were “the size and weight of a railroad car” and reigned over the world’s oceans “roughly 23 to 3.6 million years ago,” according to the National Museum of Natural History.
A new study finds that megatooth sharks’ warm-blood adaptation and giant size may have played a role in their extinction. Scientists find new clue in what led to megalodon’s demise Skip to ...
Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives is a 2013 film that aired on the Discovery Channel about the potential survival of the prehistoric shark. Purported to be a documentary, the story revolves around numerous videos, "photographs", and firsthand encounters with a megalodon and an ensuing investigation that points to the involvement of the prehistoric species, despite the long-held belief of its ...
Otodus auriculatus[1] is an extinct species of large sharks in the genus Otodus of the family Otodontidae, closely related to the sharks of the genus Otodus, and also closely related to the later species megalodon. The largest individuals were about 9.5 metres (31 ft) long. Its teeth were large, having coarse serrations on the cutting edge, and ...
Shark researchers are accustomed to surprises, but The Atlantic Shark Institute was taken off guard when something resembling an extinct megalodon shark appeared on sonar. Megalodons were 50 feet ...
Otodus angustidens[3] is an extinct species of prehistoric megatoothed sharks in the genus Otodus, which lived during the Late Eocene and Miocene epochs about 34 to 21 million years ago. [4] The largest individuals were about 11–12 metres (36–39 ft) long. This shark is related to another extinct megatoothed shark, the famous Otodus megalodon.