Fifty years after Jaws hit theaters, and there’s still a lot we don’t know about sharks, which lends to their reputation as mysterious predators. There’s even more we don’t know about ancient sharks, ...

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 ...

Maryland leaders are considering a bill that would make the extinct megalodon the official state shark.

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 ...

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 ...

It's been 50 years since Steven Spielberg's movie "Jaws" first cast a terrifying shadow across our screens. At a low point during production, Spielberg worried he'd only ever be known for "a big fish ...

The deadly megalodon ate sea bream and smaller sharks as well as whales, suggests a new study. The largest predatory fish in Earth’s history had a "broad diet" - fed on smaller species as well as ...

A battle between a megalodon and a blue whale sounds thrilling on paper, but in reality, these giants were separated by millions of years, which might be for the best. The megalodon, an enormous shark ...

Megalodon teeth are the largest of all shark species. With teeth that can measure up to the size of a human hand, it is easy to imagine just how enormous these ancient sharks were. However, there is ...