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.

The creek had already produced shark teeth, whale bone, turtle shell, and other fossils millions of years old. But the ...

Maryland has become the first state to designate the prehistoric megalodon, a massive shark that lived millions of years ago, ...

For decades, Megalodon was sold as a giant great white shark, but new 2025 research suggests that picture may be completely wrong. Scientists now believe the predator may have been longer, sleeker, ...

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 ...

Charles Shelton Jr. says areas with fresh beach renourishment can be a gold mine for shark teeth and other finds.

This Florida river lets you find fossils millions of years old, including real megalodon shark teeth beneath the surface.

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

Tectonic plate movements over millions of years have lifted and tilted the layers, with records of ancient earthquakes in the rocks ...

ST. MARYS COUNTY- Delegate Todd Morgan, who represents District 29C in the Maryland House of Delegates, said constituent ...