Roaming the ancient seas eons ago, the megalodon shark eviscerated its prey with jaws that were 10 feet wide.

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.

Maryland has designated the megalodon as the official state shark. Maryland is the first state to select a state shark. The ...

Molly Sampson, a 9-year-old from Prince Frederick, Maryland, discovered a 5-inch megalodon tooth while fossil hunting in the ...

Maryland became the first state to designate an official shark on April 14, 2026, naming the extinct Otodus megalodon whose ...

Megalodon secrets that rewrite ocean history New research is transforming our understanding of the megalodon, revealing it as an adaptable feeder rather than a whale-only hunter. Fossil discoveries, ...

A bill to make the prehistoric shark megalodon the Maryland state shark has passed in the legislative session in Annapolis.

Maryland lawmakers are considering a bill to make the megalodon — the biggest shark that ever lived — Maryland's state shark. But the clock is ticking. The curator of paleontology at Calvert Marine ...

A 9-million-year-old shark fossil with its jaw intact and its last meal still inside has emerged from Peru’s coastal desert, ...

(Rui Palma/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Long before Megalodon ruled the seas, something just as unsettling may have lurked in ...

Another crash happened on Holiday Lake Drive in Holiday on Friday morning. Florida Highway Patrol says it happened when a driver failed to stop at a stop sign, hitting another car, and a nearby garden ...

Florida was once part of a prehistoric, warm, shallow sea filled with sharks. Fast forward to today, and their prehistoric teeth can be found along Venice’s beaches, leading the town to herald itself ...