Instead, minerals in fossilized teeth reveal that megalodon might have been an opportunistic feeder to meet its remarkable 100,000-calorie-per-day requirement. “When available, it would probably ...

Fossil preparator Tabatha Gabay works on remains of an ancient marine predator — a plesiosaur in the Perot Museum of Nature and Science fossil lab in Dallas, April 23, 2025. She was working on ...

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The research, published Sunday in the journal “Palaeontologia Electronica,” suggests that the megalodon, which dominated the ocean 3.5 million years ago, was more than three times the size of ...

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The deadly megalodon ate sea bream and smaller sharks as well as whales, suggests a new study. The largest predatory fish in Earth’s history had a "broad diet" - fed on smaller species as well ...

Kristina Scott found a 6-inch megalodon shark tooth while fossil diving in Venice. She said she’s been fossil diving for three years and has found things ranging from mammoth and sperm whale ...

Megalodon is one of the biggest predators ever to have lived. The creature is believed to have died out around 3.6 million years ago. But it dominated oceans during life, and could've reached ...

Few prehistoric monsters capture the imagination quite like the megalodon. From natural history museums to the silver screen, this colossal shark, which went extinct over three million years ago ...