Maryland lawmakers voted to designate the massive, prehistoric megalodon as the state's official shark. The passed legislation makes Maryland the first state to name an official shark.

Molly Sampson, a 9-year-old from Prince Frederick, Maryland, discovered a 5-inch megalodon tooth while fossil hunting in the ...

Molly Sampson, age nine, knew exactly what she wanted for Christmas this past December: a pair of insulated wading boots. With the boots, she told her mom, she could go out into the water at Calvert ...

Maryland became the first state to designate an official shark on April 14, 2026, naming the extinct Otodus megalodon whose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Megalodons went extinct about 3.6 million years ago, but their fossils are all over Maryland. While the mighty megalodon is not ...

A bill to make the prehistoric shark megalodon the Maryland state shark has passed in the legislative session in Annapolis.

Maryland lawmakers are considering a bill to make the megalodon — the biggest shark that ever lived — Maryland's state shark. But the clock is ticking. The curator of paleontology at Calvert Marine ...