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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 young shark enthusiast vacationing with his family in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, stumbled upon the find of a lifetime -- a tooth belonging to the largest shark to ever exist.
Diagram illustrating the largest (grey) and most conservative (red) size estimates of the Miocene-Pliocene shark Carcharocles megalodon (sometimes Carcharodon or Otodus megalodon) with a whale shark (violet), great white shark (green), and anachronistic human (black) to scale †Otodus megalodon †Oxyrhina †Pachecoa †Pachyarmatherium
The fact that the bite marks were found on the tooth's roots further suggest that the shark broke the whale's jaw during the bite, suggesting the bite was extremely powerful. The fossil is also notable as it stands as the first known instance of an antagonistic interaction between a sperm whale and an otodontid shark recorded in the fossil record.
Diagram illustrating the largest (grey) and most conservative (red) size estimates of the Miocene-Pliocene shark Carcharocles megalodon (sometimes Carcharodon or Otodus megalodon) with a whale shark (violet), great white shark (green), and anachronistic human (black) to scale †Otodus megalodon †Oxyrhina †Oxyrhina praecursor †Oxyrhina ...
The sharks were about 50 feet long, experts say.
During the Oligocene, South Carolina was home to bony fishes, sharks, and rays. [8] A primitive toothed whale called Xenorophus sloanii was preserved in Charleston County. [9] Miocene life of South Carolina included a great diversity of mollusks, who left behind a wide variety of fossil shells. [9] Pliocene life included mollusks and sea ...
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