Fossils have a way of captivating everyone ... ruthless apex predator is well-established; fossilized whale bones bear deep Megalodon tooth marks, providing clear evidence of their feeding ...

But the tooth almost certainly came from a very large ichthyosaur comparable in size to the blue whale, Sander said, pointing to jaw fossils from the United Kingdom that came from animals estimated at ...

Researchers have estimated that megalodon had a bite of between 108,514 and 182,201N. The tip of a megalodon tooth is preserved in this fossil whale rib bone Most reconstructions show megalodon ...

The sand around him was strewn with fossil shark teeth, sea urchin spines ... "It isn't every day that you see a whale's leg," he said, lifting the bone reverently in both hands.

"Future paleontologist, Molly, was out searching for fossils on Christmas morning when, what to her wondering eyes appeared…but a huge Megalodon tooth!" the museum wrote on its Facebook page.

It was estimated that the fossil is of a prehistoric whale dating back to the Middle Eocene period (39-47 million years ago). But 10 months later, on January 27, parts of the fossil were reported ...

The group includes the more famous animals such as whale sharks and great whites ... But they were still affected. Fossil teeth show that the asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous killed off ...