Roaming the ancient seas eons ago, the megalodon shark eviscerated its prey with jaws that were 10 feet wide.

Maryland lawmakers voted to designate the massive, prehistoric megalodon as the state's official shark. The passed legislation makes Maryland the first state to name an official shark.

Maryland has a new state shark, and it's sure to make some waves. The state legislature this week designated the Megalodon ...

The megalodon (Otodus megalodon) is another step closer to becoming the first state shark in the United States. At the last ...

The frilled shark, also called the lizard shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus), is one of the ocean’s most ancient species. Its appearance and primitive features have barely changed since the Cretaceous ...

Maryland became the first state to designate an official shark on April 14, 2026, naming the extinct Otodus megalodon whose ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand(AP) — In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what's now northern Australia, among the sea ...

A broken tooth lodged deep in bone can outlast the animal that lost it. In two whale skulls from Belgium, those fragments have done exactly that, preserving a moment of violence from roughly five ...