For decades, people imagined Megalodon as a giant version of a great white shark, but new research suggests that picture was ...

As paleontologist Stephen Godfrey walked into the Calvert Marine Museum one morning in April, staff members congratulated him ...

Maryland lawmakers voted to designate the massive, prehistoric megalodon as the state's official shark. The passed legislation makes Maryland the first state to name an official shark.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland has a new state shark, and it's sure to make some waves. The state legislature this week designated the Megalodon the Old Line State’s “official” state shark. Maryland is ...

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Maryland lawmakers are considering a bill to make the megalodon — the biggest shark that ever lived — Maryland's state shark. But the clock is ticking. The curator of paleontology at Calvert Marine ...

A 6-inch megalodon shark tooth was found by a Wyoming teen during a dive trip off Manasota Key, Florida earlier this week. Sixteen-year-old Aiden Andrews and his father Brian were on a guided dive ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — No state in the U.S. has an official shark, but Maryland lawmakers are digging deep into history to hopefully add a prehistoric icon to its list of state symbols. Lawmakers in the ...

With testimony filled with shark-themed puns and chuckles from everyone in the room, Del. Todd Morgan, a Republican, advocated to finally have the Otodus megalodon designated as Maryland’s state shark ...

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Before the famously huge megalodon, another fearsome ocean predator roamed the seas. According to a paper published earlier this year in Communications Biology, a massive shark that exceeded the size ...