An artist's conception of a megalodon next to a great white shark. Credit: Victor Habbick Visions / Science Photo Library / Getty Images One of the most striking fossils around today are the teeth and ...

Zinc levels in shark teeth indicate that the two predators occupied similar places in the food chain—but only one species is still around today. Reading time 2 minutes A team of researchers ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — When you think of the largest predator to exist in the blue waters, you might go to a great white shark or an Orca whale — but do you remember hearing about a megalodon? As one ...

Using zinc isotopes, researchers investigated the diet of megalodon, the largest shark to have ever lived. The diet of fossil extinct animals can hold clues to their lifestyle, behaviour, evolution ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Ancient great white sharks could have driven their massive megalodon cousins into extinction by stealing their prey, a ...

Megatooth sharks like, Otodus megalodon, more commonly known as megalodon, lived between 23 and 3.6 million years ago in oceans around the globe and possibly reached as large as 20 metres in length.