Megalodon, means "Big tooth" is the largest prehistoric shark that roamed the prehistoric seas.Megalodon teeth is 18 centimeters in height and this mega predator eat fish and marine mammals.One
of the most common myths most often told about
C. megalodon
is that it is
only known from teeth. In reality the teeth are by far the most
common fossils of
C. megalodon, but a small and
growing number of
vertebras have also been recovered. In shark biology in general,
the skeleton is always made up of 'soft' cartilage, but the
vertebrate are made up of harder calcified cartilage. This means that
while the vertebra can and often do decompose, they can survive for
longer increasing the chance of them getting fossilised.
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