Carcharocles megalodon (or
Otodus megalodon for some researchers) was the largest predatory shark to ever swim in Earth’s seas. Scientific evidence points to megalodon having lived between 16 million and 2.6 million years ago, going extinct at the end of the Pliocene Epoch when the world’s oceans were much colder than today’s. Reconstruction of a 16m megalodon. Illustration by Oliver Demuth/Jack Cooper
Over the years, severalresearch papers have estimated meg’s size. Its teeth are shaped like large, flat triangles with serrated edges much like the teeth of living white sharks. White sharks, along with mako sharks and the porbeagle shark all belong in the family Lamnidae and are referred to as “lamnids”.
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