One little girl spoke it into existence ... a tooth belonging to the now-extinct Otodus megalodon shark species. A local marine museum's curator called it a "once-in-a-lifetime kind of find".
The extinct Otodus megalodon, or “megalodon,” remains an iconic apex predator, known for its massive size and fearsome teeth.
The oldest definitive ancestor of megalodon is a 55-million-year-old shark known as Otodus obliquus, which grew to around 10 metres in length. But the evolutionary history of this shark is thought to ...
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 oldest definitive ancestor of megalodon is a 55-million-year-old shark known as Otodus obliquus, which grew to around 10 metres in length. But the evolutionary history of this shark is thought to ...