#Megalodon

iStockphoto / Baris-Ozer The megalodon has been extinct for millions of years. We know this because of the fossil record. But we as a society have clung to the belief that one day, maybe, we’ll find a megalodon shark in hiding somewhere because so much of the ocean is unexplored. Otodus

iStockphoto / Baris-Ozer Most of what we really know about the megalodon starts and ends with how big their teeth were. Fossil hunters regularly find massive megalodon teeth and from this, paleontologists are able to extrapolate a lot about the largest shark that ever existed. We also know they

iStockphoto / Mark Kostich I actually published this article about cannibal megalodon sharks back in October but for reasons unbeknownst to me every mainstream news organization on the planet seems to have just caught wind of the bloodlust. So, I’m running it again because why not? I’m sure a few

The Megalodon shark (Otodus megalodon) aka ‘Meg’ was the largest shark to ever inhabit the oceans. Recent studies have found that megalodons were actually nearly 2x longer than any shark that isn’t a ‘filter feeder’ and Megs measured up to 46-feet-long (14 meters). To give you some context, those