Just in time for summer, the megalodon—the ancient, city bus-sized shark known as the “Megatooth”—has reared its ravenous snout. While the oceans are now safe from the Megatooth, which went extinct an ...

More information: Jürgen Pollerspöck et al, First in situ documentation of a fossil tooth of the megatooth shark Otodus ( Megaselachus ) megalodon from the deep sea in the Pacific Ocean ...

The tooth was hard to spot amongst the rocky ... "The first in situ documentation of a megatooth shark fossil from the deep sea highlights the importance of using advanced deep-diving technologies ...

The megalodon (Otodus megalodon) was a megatooth shark, which roamed the oceans from about 22 million years ago until about three million years ago. Its name means "big tooth". Three times bigger ...

Megalodon teeth are relatively weaker than the most gracile teeth of other megatooth sharks." The team found that the region of the shark’s tooth placed under the highest stress during a bite was ...

Schematic drawing showing the general body size pattern of the iconic extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon, using hypothetical silhouettes. Note the increase in body size towards cooler ...

A fossil enthusiast recently discovered a fossilized tooth dating back 270 million years from a petalodont (petal-toothed) shark in the mountains of Qujing, Southwest China's Yunnan Province.

Identified annual growth bands in a vertebra of the extinct megatooth shark Otodus megalodon along with hypothetical silhouettes of the ... little is known about their biology or behavior as the ...