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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 ...
He named it Carcharias megalodon in an 1835 illustration of the holotype and additional teeth, congeneric with the modern sand tiger shark. [1] [2] The specific name is a portmanteau of the Ancient Greek words μεγάλος (megálos, meaning "big") and ὀδών (odṓn, meaning "tooth"), [16] [17] combined meaning "big tooth".
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Otodontidae is an extinct family of sharks belonging to the order Lamniformes.Its members have been described as megatoothed sharks. [1] [2] They lived from the Early Cretaceous to the Pliocene, and included genera such as Otodus, including the giant megalodon. [3]
Megalodon, a very large extinct shark; Whale shark, the largest living species of shark; Great white shark, one of the largest living species of predatory shark; Megamouth shark, a shark with a very large mouth
Sea Monsters, [a] marketed as Chased by Sea Monsters in the United States, is a 2003 three-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by the BBC Studios Science Unit, [4] the Discovery Channel and ProSieben. [5]
The reviews are in for Meg 2: The Trench – and the critics’ teeth are sharper than a prehistoric shark’s. Directed by Ben Wheatley , the film, released on Friday (4 August), is a sequel to ...
A shark that attacked a Russian tourist is set to be mummified and displayed in an Egyptian museum. Vladimir Popov, 23, was eaten alive by a shark off a beach at an Egyptian resort in Hurghada in ...