Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. When did the megalodon shark go extinct, and why ...
HMNS’ Associate Curator of Paleontology David Temple and his volunteers are carefully placing teeth into this mammoth jaw in celebration of Shark Week. When completed, the jaw will have a total of 178 ...
Megalodon usually gets all the attention when it comes to sea monsters, but ancient oceans were full of predators just as strange and scary. Fossils tell us that long before modern sharks ruled the ...
(Rui Palma/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Long before Megalodon ruled the seas, something just as unsettling may have lurked in ...
‘Kraken’ fossils show enormous, intelligent octopuses were top predators in Cretaceous seas Fossil jaws from colossal ...
It’s not Shark Week yet, but National Megalodon Day is the next best thing until the Discovery Channel kicks off its shark love fest on July 20. National Megalodon Day is June 15 and celebrates the ...