Maryland is officially the first state in the nation to designate a state shark: The extinct megalodon became one of the ...

Maryland became the first state in the nation to designate an official state shark on Thursday, when the extinct megalodon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As paleontologist Stephen Godfrey walked into the Calvert Marine Museum one morning in April, staff members congratulated him. In ...

Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins, whales and large sea cows roamed the world’s oceans, topping the underwater food chain. Yet back then, any one of these creatures could ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The extinct Megalodon, meaning "big tooth," was an apex ...

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It hasn't been easy forming a picture of the megalodon, a massive shark that dominated the oceans millions of years ago, because fossil finds include only teeth and vertebrae. But researchers in 28 ...

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Maryland has become the first state to designate a state shark, choosing the extinct megalodon. The effort was led by paleontologist Stephen Godfrey of the Calvert Marine Museum. Fossils of the ...

As paleontologist Stephen Godfrey walked into the Calvert Marine Museum one morning in April, staff members congratulated him. In a way, he brought an extinct species back to life. Two days earlier, ...