He added: "That size of tooth would belong to a pretty big shark too. Assuming it's an anterior tooth—center of the mouth—then you're looking at a shark that was about 32 to 39 feet long.

Meg 2: The Trench hits theaters this week with a larger-than-life depiction of the megalodon. Here’s what we actually know about the beast, according to scientists.

Faster than any shark alive today and big enough to eat an orca in just five bites: A new study suggests the extinct shark known as a megalodon was an even more impressive superpredator than ...

The shark experts we spoke with wouldn't put an exact value on the giant tooth Nastasio found, but they hinted that a megalodon tooth this big in size and also complete could be sold for thousands ...

Big shark + big toothache: ... 3.7 million years ago. A puncture injury to the tooth gum such as this may have caused gemination of the developing tooth buds. Image: Jorge Gonzalez via NCSU.

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The tooth is intact and a sight to see."Mickler's Landing is a well-known and popular stretch of coast for finding shark teeth and other sea gems.But this was an unusual find.Adam knows that ...

Nowadays, you'd be hard pressed to find a modern white shark tooth this big. Large teeth come from large sharks, and sadly, large adult white sharks—measuring greater than 18 feet in length ...

Eat your heart out, Tooth Fairy. A petrified chomper that once belonged to a monstrous prehistoric shark was stolen from a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Australia, according to a report Tuesday. Th… ...

The "big tooth" shark was about three times the size of a great white shark, judging by the size of its teeth, ranging between 50 feet and 60 feet or longer, according to the Natural History ...

But Fauth attributes her recent prehistoric find — a megalodon shark tooth — on North Topsail Beach to luck. “I’m looking around and I see something buried in the sand,” she told WECT .