Megalodon Tooth (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Megalodon Tooth

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Teeth such as this from the extinct 40-foot-long shark Carcharocles megalodon are common in the Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed near Bakersfield, Calif., because, like modern sharks, these extinct sharks also shed teeth throughout their lives.

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Nick Pyenson/University of British Columbia

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