A recent diving trip off the coast of Florida resulted in an ancient discovery. Kristina Scott found a 6-inch megalodon shark tooth while fossil diving in Venice. She said she’s been fossil diving for ...

Venice, Florida, USA Info from Licensor: "I found this rare Megalodon shark tooth while scuba diving in Venice, FL on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. Common size megs to find here are between 1-4 inches.

“We know that Megalodon had gigantic cutting teeth used for feeding on marine mammals, such as cetaceans and pinnipeds, based on the fossil record. The new study is consistent with the idea that ...

“On the other hand, teeth are very hard, so they’re durable.” Megalodon produced new teeth throughout its life, helping make these fossils a fairly common find. Along with teeth, the ...

A scuba-diving entrepreneur found a six-inch megalodon tooth in the Gulf last week, a rare specimen indicating the ...

The new study also reassessed other biological aspects. For example, a 24.3-meter-long O. megalodon would have weighed around 94 tons, and the cruising speed estimated from scale morphology was 2. ...

Kristina Scott was diving off the coast of Venice, known as the "Shark Tooth Capital of the World," when she spotted something peaking on the sea floor. When she scraped away the sand, she found a ...

The Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center now features a 3,000 gallon observation tank, the centerpiece of a ...

While some researchers have compared megalodon to a gigantic version of the stocky great white shark, others believe the species had a more slender body shape. A new paper published in the journal ...

A new study suggests that the megalodon wasn't as stocky as the great white shark, and that it could have reached over 24 m (80 ft) in length. As is the case with other prehistoric sharks ...

Plentiful megalodon teeth (and a number of calcified ... above museum visitors dining in a new café. “My job is to not have a style,” he said, “but rather to be the animal—to make that ...