The Mississippi River is one of the longest and most biologically diverse rivers in the United States, flowing through ...

The ocean’s ultimate predator once hunted whales with ease. Here’s why the world’s biggest shark eventually vanished off the face of the Earth.

Experts and novices alike hunt for specimens that could change our understanding of evolution – and all only a short day trip from Melbourne ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — One of the most fearsome predators to rule the seas millions of years ago may have left something behind at Virginia Beach’s North End. Terry Siviter and his 5-year-old grandson, ...

There is said to be a shark that is scarier than the one from the movie Jaws which is as large as the biggest whale. But this isn’t a monster from a sci-fi movie, it’s real. This kind of shark lived ...

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The Megalodon is coming to Jurassic World Evolution 3. Having roamed prehistoric oceans around 20 million years ago, the Megalodon is one of the largest shark species ever discovered, measuring as ...

A Morehead City man is showing off a huge find. Christian Corbitt, CEO of Encounter SCUBA, pulled up a six-inch megalodon tooth during a recent dive about 30 miles off the coast of Wilmington. Other ...

Call me crazy, uneducated, or what-have-you, but I thought the ancient Megalodon shark was just a myth. A fabled creature, akin to the kraken, trumpeted by Shark Week and other fear-mongering media, ...

Well, there’s only fossil records to go off, but scientists have some ideas. According to a Smithsonian report on the carcharocles megalodon: “ Carcharocles megalodon was once the most fearsome ...

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