An 11-year-old boy has discovered the tooth of a giant prehistoric shark on a beach walk in New Jersey. Bo Bowers and his ...

A family from Elizabeth made the find of a lifetime at the beach this week, discovering a tooth that once belonged to an ...

Megalodons have been extinct for at least 3.6 million years, making the find remarkable.

Mike Bowers and his 11-year-old son, Bo, recently made the discovery while on vacation ...

No complete megalodon skeleton has ever been found, because sharks are built mostly from cartilage that rarely survives the ...

A Pennsylvania family is back home with an unusual souvenir from their trip to the Jersey Shore. They found a prehistoric ...

The fossils were badly damaged during a museum move and then effectively disappeared from scientific study for decades. Their ...

The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago, and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth. But the megalodon may not have been as big as once thought, some researchers suggest.

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 ...

Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins, whales and large sea cows roamed the world’s oceans, topping the underwater food chain. Yet back then, any one of these creatures could ...

A museum curator gives a sense of scale to the reconstructed jaws of the fossil shark Otodus megalodon. Rick Meyer / Contributor via Getty Images In the more than 400 million years that sharks have ...