As one of the largest predators to have ever lived, megalodon captures people's imagination - and for good reason. But was this apex predator simply a beefed-up great white shark, and is it still ...

A 52-foot, life-size model of a Carcharocles megalodon shark is now on display in the National Museum of Natural History’s newly opened dining facilities. Erin I. Garcia de Jesus The Smithsonian ...

As one of the largest predators to have ever lived, megalodon captures people's imagination - and for good reason. But was this apex predator simply a beefed-up great white shark, and is it still ...

Millions of years ago, the hunting whale called Livyatan (L. melvillei) had to compete with the massive shark called megalodon (O. megalodon) for resources. These two lived together over 9 million ...

But when they saw the fangs, the lethal grin of an apex predator, they knew. They had found a pliosaur, one of the rarest of the rare, and the most fearsome marine reptile that ever lived — the ...

Making a CGI (computer-generated imagery) pliosaur is a slow and expensive process, but making a digital ocean for it to swim in is also difficult and time consuming. We needed to film back plates ...

The 2m-long (6ft) skull of a pliosaur, excavated from high above a beach in Dorset, is on display at the Etches Collection in Kimmeridge. Now the museum is crowdfunding to recover the rest of the ...

Philip Jacobs on the beach with the pliosaur snout. Image by Philip Jacobs I have been collecting the fossils of marine reptiles from the Kimmeridge clay for almost forty years. On the 5th April ...

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The skull of the 39-foot-long pliosaur, a Jurassic predator described as an "underwater T. Rex," comes complete with 130 razor-sharp teeth. Scientists are now hoping to find the rest of the ...

This period of time was when dinosaurs first evolved. The continents we live on today were part of one land mass that scientists call Pangaea. The climate was hot and dinosaurs flourished after ...