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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered that the long-extinct megalodon, also known as the megatooth shark, had a body temperature ... in the megalodon’s fossil teeth called apatite. A tooth’s isotopic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We’ve never been asked to assess a tooth that size from Rhode Island waters, never mind two in a matter of months,” Dodd ...

The Calvert Marine Museum this month unveiled a new exhibit featuring a never-before-seen set of teeth from an extinct megatooth shark known as megalodon.

For the second time this year, a fossilized great white shark tooth has been found at Narragansett Town Beach.

A second shark tooth estimated to be at about 10,000 years old washed up on the shores of Narragansett recently just months ...