You, too, can take on the Meg. The fabled megalodon, or carcharocles megalodon, meaning “giant tooth,” is the shark that Hollywood has fallen in love with over the past decade.

Fossils have a way of captivating everyone, no matter their profession or the species unearthed, but there’s something about Megalodon that grips the imagination like no other. Fossilized shark teeth ...

A new study shows the Megalodon, a gigantic shark that went extinct 3.6 million years ago, was more slender than earlier studies suggested. This finding changes scientists’ understanding of Megalodon ...

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