You'll get to walk through the massive jaws of the largest shark that ever lived at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences starting next Saturday. But before that, you ...

You, too, can take on the Meg. The fabled megalodon, or carcharocles megalodon, meaning “giant tooth,” is the shark that Hollywood has fallen in love with over the past decade.

A new study shows the Megalodon, a gigantic shark that went extinct 3.6 million years ago, was more slender than earlier studies suggested. This finding changes scientists’ understanding of Megalodon ...