A group of shark enthusiasts and scientists is hoping to make Maryland the first state in the nation to have a state shark.

While fans of the movie and novel “Jaws” might envision an encounter with a 22-foot great white shark as being daunting, historians and marine biologists alike are quick to note that the extinct ...

Sometimes you get a wild hair and decide to drive halfway across the country to go fossil hunting somewhere you've always wanted to go. It helps that one of my very best friends moved to Maryland from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roaming the ancient seas eons ago, the megalodon shark eviscerated its prey with jaws that were 10 feet wide. Warpaintcobra/iStock ...

Paleobiologist Dr. Kenshu Shimada has been fascinated by fossil sharks, including the giant Otodus megalodon, since childhood — he found his first megalodon tooth at 13 years old. So when he saw the ...

Megalodon teeth are the largest of all shark species. With teeth that can measure up to the size of a human hand, it is easy to imagine just how enormous these ancient sharks were. However, there is ...