Fossil teeth also help us to understand shark evolution. For example, we know that the extinct giant mako shark, Isurus hastalis, is the ancestor of today’s great white shark. The fossil record ...

Scientists have found an exceptionally preserved giant fossil of an ancestor to great white sharks ... great whites and salmon sharks – and had grinding teeth unlike those seen in today ...

A study of the ocean giant's fossil teeth suggests it had to compete for food with another ferocious predator, the great white shark. The battle for diminishing stocks of whales and other prey may ...

These humongous sea creatures prey on other sea creatures’ meat, which alone suggests that they have strong, incredibly sharp ...

Almost all fossil remains of megalodon are teeth. Sharks continually produce teeth throughout their entire lives ... A study from 2022 suggests that competition with great white sharks for food may ...

"This species of scallop has been extinct for almost 2 million years," the poster from North Carolina told Newsweek.

Until now, only the length of the Otodus Megalodon, as featured in the 2018 film The Meg, had been estimated from fossils of its ... times as long as a great white shark - is likely to have ...

The teeth of great white sharks and megalodon had similar isotope levels, indicating that they occupied the same spot in the food chain. "I'll caution that we don't have a whole lot of data ...

Megalodon teeth are similar to great white shark teeth ... hypothetical body length of the megalodon," Victor Perez, a shark fossil expert and visiting assistant professor of Environmental ...

John Long is a palaeontologist who has studied in depth the 450-million-year history of sharks. When Professor Long joined ABC Conversations he schooled Richard Fidler on some impressive facts about ...

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 ...

or great white. The scientist identified the shark species by examining its teeth and the shape of its tail fin. The animal is male and measures approximately 13.5 feet long, according to the DFO.