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Harriet Marsden

The ancient megalodon shark survival myth

Study provides clues to giant predator’s disappearance and debunks social media theories of its survival

The ocean’s most formidable cold-hearted killer, the long-extinct giant megalodon shark, may have been warm-blooded – which could have caused its disappearance more than three million years ago. 

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