There's a megalodon tooth resting on my fireplace mantle. The ancient, palm-sized fossil is fascinating, but a common household curio: Teeth from the giant extinct shark — which grew around 50 feet ...

An artist's conception of a megalodon next to a great white shark. Credit: Victor Habbick Visions / Science Photo Library / Getty Images One of the most striking fossils around today are the teeth and ...

We recently took some friends from out of state to experience some Florida fossil hunting! Their 8 year old son Rob is just like us when we were kids, and we wanted to make sure he found a nice ...

Megalodon lived. Past tense. The largest shark ever, and arguably the largest predator, went extinct 2.6 million or more years ago. And it has stayed that way. But Hollywood sequel makers will be ...

The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago, and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth. But there's debate over what it looked like. Most scientists have described it as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The megalodon is a prehistoric ancestor of the modern-day shark, and just like it preceded the shark, National Megalodon Day ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An experienced Florida diver recently found a 6.25-inch long megalodon tooth, the largest tooth he’s found during his 22 years of ...

The movie version of megalodon is back in a new sequel, Meg 2: The Trench, indicating that this ancient megafauna’s charisma is still a major draw for audiences raised on “Shark Week.” But what’s the ...

Faster than any shark alive today and big enough to eat an orca in just five bites: A new study suggests the extinct shark known as a megalodon was an even more impressive superpredator than ...