A fearsome killer C. megalodon, often called simply “megalodon,” is famous for its massive size and sharp teeth. Its name in Greek means “big-toothed glorious shark” – a fitting moniker ...

Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean, where it liked to devour ...

But was this apex predator simply a beefed-up great white shark, and is it still lurking in the dark depths ... Without a complete megalodon skeleton to measure, these figures are based on tooth size.

or hypothesize about prehistoric shark nurseries based on tooth size distributions! STF is designed for flexibility, making it accessible from 4th to 12th grades. Teachers receive a ...

Remarkably, fossil shark teeth are also incredibly abundant. Sharks ruled the earth's oceans for 400 million years, and every individual grows and sheds thousands of teeth in their lifetime.

The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal environments evolved in ancient times, according to our newly published work. Our study was one ...

A handful of high schoolers prompt scientists to develop a new approach for calculating the size of the ancient behemoth ... was working with high school students and casts of giant fish teeth. And ...

The university museum’s collection from Rio do Meio includes teeth from at least eight different species—and shark teeth are a treasure chest of information. In a recent paper, Burg Mayer and ...

A "serrated blade" found sticking from a rock in the United Kingdom has been identified as a "nearly perfect" prehistoric shark tooth, experts say. It belonged to a Squalicorax falcatus shark ...

Our study was one of the first to date Florida coastal deposits using fossil shark teeth and a technique that looks at variations in ocean strontium. Strontium is a chemical element that occurs ...