WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, North Carolina -- The North Carolina coast is known for many things but, for divers, it is well known as a hot spot for finding giant prehistoric Megalodon teeth. "It's really rare ...

If modern sharks seem intimidating, their prehistoric ancestors were even more extraordinary. Long before today’s great ...

This summer we’re celebrating some of the most successful animals our planet has ever seen with the 50th anniversary of Jaws and the return of dinosaurs in Jurassic World Rebirth. While the non-avian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Megalodons went extinct about 3.6 million years ago, but their fossils are all over Maryland. While the mighty megalodon is not ...

More than 500 specimens believed to be about 20 million years old have been unearthed in Fremont. The fossils include teeth from the biggest prehistoric shark and what appears to be an entire whale ...

You probably wouldn't want to get close to the live version of the prehistoric shark that's part of a new exhibit at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh ...

Celebrate Shark Week by meeting some of the prehistoric sharks prowling the museum’s collection Jack Tamisiea For nearly half a billion years, sharks of all shapes and sizes have ruled the deep, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. About the only thing cooler in artist Ray Troll's eyes than a shark is an ancient shark, the ...

Otodus megalodon, the biggest shark of all time, has long captured the imaginations of paleontologists and the public alike. Scientific fascination spawns from the sheer enormity of their fossilized ...

Scientists recently discovered an ancient sawshark species and named it after Pochita, a character from the popular anime/manga Chainsaw Man. For the unversed, Pochita is the constant companion of ...

Prehistoric animals are often pictured as distant fossils, yet a surprising number of species still walk, swim, and crawl ...