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.

As paleontologist Stephen Godfrey walked into the Calvert Marine Museum one morning in April, staff members congratulated him ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The megalodon is a prehistoric ancestor of the modern-day shark, and just like it preceded the shark, National Megalodon Day ...

The true size of a gigantic prehistoric megalodon shark that ruled the oceans millions of years ago has been revealed for the first time -- and it had teeth as big as hands, and a fin as tall as a ...

Was the Megalodon shark actually as massive and monstrous as it has looked in sci-fi movies? A new study has found that the Megalodon shark was actually not like a gigantic great white shark. The ...

Jason Statham won’t save your parkgoers if they happen to fall into a deep lagoon with a Megalodon swimming around. That’s a very real possibility in Jurassic World Evolution 3, especially following ...

In the final hours of Maryland’s legislative session, lawmakers passed a bill to make megalodon — the largest shark that ever ...

Megalodons—the iconic extinct sharks that dominated the ocean millions of years ago—have been portrayed in Hollywood blockbusters and sci-fi novels as oversize great white sharks. But new research ...

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 ...

Cassie Shivley recalled the conversation she had with her father. He was going for a walk on the beach and he had one thing in mind. Shivley's father, Brad Vanderstow, lives in Central Michigan. He is ...