Jaws of Carcharocles megalodon, an extinct species of shark that lived about 23 to 3.6 million years ago.Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace A charter boat captain found a whopping 6.25-inch long ...

A Florida family made the find of a lifetime when they unearthed a 6.5-inch megalodon tooth near Charleston, South Carolina, earlier this month. Paul Columbia and his family of four from Largo, ...

(CNN) — What scientists understand about the voracious feeding habits of the colossal megalodon could be up for some revision. The prehistoric predator that went extinct about 3.6 million years ago ...

A lucky Florida family found a once-in-a-lifetime fossil that belonged to one of the biggest predators that ever roamed the ocean. Bricen Columbia, 19, found a 6.5-inch megalodon tooth in South ...

Shark tooth hunters unanimously agree that finding a megalodon tooth—or a “meg,” as Harkin calls it—is the ultimate goal. At Relic Reef, the megalodon finds have been plentiful.

In Florida, material from shell mines is used as fill dirt on roads to prevent erosion. Lucky for us fossil hunters, the material holds some wonderfully preserved fossil shells and also shark teeth, ...