HMNS’ Associate Curator of Paleontology David Temple and his volunteers are carefully placing teeth into this mammoth jaw in celebration of Shark Week. When completed, the jaw will have a total of 178 ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. When did the megalodon shark go extinct, and why ...

Shark teeth are everywhere once people start noticing them. They turn up in fossil shops, washed along beaches, buried inside ...

Jacob Danner has searched a Florida beach for washed-up items almost every sunrise for the past year. But three weeks ago, Danner, an art curator, found his first megalodon tooth - 3 inches long, and ...