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Megalodon May Have Eaten Whatever It Could Find to Feed Its 100,000-Calorie-Per-Day Diet
For decades, the giant ancient shark Otodus megalodon has loomed in our imaginations as a horror of the ancient seas — an ...
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Megalodon’s secret menu: Biggest-ever sea predator ate more than just whales
For decades, scientists assumed that Otodus megalodon—the largest predatory fish in Earth’s history—fed almost exclusively on ...
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Extinct megalodon shark was even bigger than previously thought
Yet back then, any one of these creatures could become prey to the ocean's fiercest apex predator: the megalodon, a giant shark with massive teeth and a body the size of a whale. In many ways ...
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New research reveals mighty megalodon’s massive appetite
They gained fresh clues into how Otodus megalodon met its "vast" appetite through state-of-the-art analysis of zinc detected ...
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Megalodon: The truth about the largest shark that ever lived
The tip of a megalodon tooth is preserved in this fossil whale rib bone. Most reconstructions show megalodon looking like an enormous great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias. This is now ...
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Study: Megalodon’s body shape was closer to a lemon shark
is the whale shark, a sedate filter feeder. As recently as 4 million years ago, however, sharks of that scale likely included the fast-moving predator megalodon (formally Otodus megalodon).
Massive megalodon tooth found off Florida coast: What ‘every fossil diver dreams about’
A recent diving trip off the coast of Florida resulted in an ancient discovery. Kristina Scott found a 6-inch megalodon shark tooth while fossil diving in Venice. She said she’s been fossil diving for ...
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Megalodon's body size and form uncover why certain aquatic vertebrates can achieve gigantism
megalodon measuring about 11 meters (36 feet ... The team also noticed that modern-day gigantic sharks, such as the whale shark (Rhincodon typus) and basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), as ...
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Megalodon grew to 80 FEET as shark’s ‘true form’ revealed for first time – and even babies were 13ft killing machines
But scientists now think the enormous creature looked "closer in shape to a lemon shark or even a large whale". The usual way to guess at the size of a megalodon is by taking tooth measurements ...
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Megalodon shark may have reached 80 feet, new study finds
Megalodon shark jaws and teeth at the American Museum ... as well as hydrodynamic models of how creatures like whale sharks (Rhincodon typus), basking sharks (Cetorhinus Maximus), and whales ...