No state in the U.S. has an official shark, but Maryland lawmakers are digging deep into history to hopefully add a prehistoric icon to its list state symbols.L ...

It only took 3.6 million years, but the giant prehistoric shark, megalodon, moved one step closer to becoming Maryland’s official state shark Monday. It took only slightly more than a month for the ...

Maryland is considering a bill that would make the extinct megalodon the official state shark.

Maryland lawmakers consider bill to name Megalodon as state's official shark ...

It's a discovery millions of years in the making: In early March, a 10-year-old Maryland boy found a megalodon tooth, and now ...

You wouldn’t think staring down the mouth of the largest shark ever could provide a bit of levity for a gathering of people charged with making crucial decisions. But last ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like other sharks, the bodies of megalodon were cartilaginous, almost entirely soft tissue, and that doesn’t preserve very well. A ...

Maryland could soon have a state shark. The massive predator’s fossilized teeth can still be found around the state.

Megalodons, the apex predator of the seas, may have gone extinct more than 3.5 million years ago, but experts may have discovered nurseries of the massive shark all around the world, according to a ...

The Megalodon is known as the largest and most fearsome shark to ever roam the oceans, but an apex predator around today may be the reason why the ancient beast went extinct millions of years ago, ...