Much of what we think about Megalodon comes from its giant teeth. However, scientists might have made an incorrect assumption ...

A family from Elizabeth made the find of a lifetime at the beach this week, discovering a tooth that once belonged to an ...

An 11-year-old boy has discovered the tooth of a giant prehistoric shark on a beach walk in New Jersey. Bo Bowers and his ...

A Pennsylvania vacationer digging through rocks on a Sea Isle City beach this week found one of the rarest treasures reported on New Jersey’s shoreline: a fossilized megalodon shark tooth. Michael ...

No complete megalodon skeleton has ever been found, because sharks are built mostly from cartilage that rarely survives the ...

The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago, and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth. But the megalodon may not have been as big as once thought, some researchers suggest.

Seven-inch megalodon shark tooth found on seafloor off North Carolina coast may have belonged to ancient predator 70 to 80 feet long, educator says.

A new study shows the Megalodon, a gigantic shark that went extinct 3.6 million years ago, was more slender than earlier studies suggested. This finding changes scientists' understanding of Megalodon ...

The Bowers family was on vacation at the Jersey Shore searching for shells on a jetty when they discovered a Megalodon tooth ...

Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins, whales and large sea cows roamed the world’s oceans, topping the underwater food chain. Yet back then, any one of these creatures could ...

The fossils were badly damaged during a museum move and then effectively disappeared from scientific study for decades. Their ...

A museum curator gives a sense of scale to the reconstructed jaws of the fossil shark Otodus megalodon. Rick Meyer / Contributor via Getty Images In the more than 400 million years that sharks have ...