Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Paleontologists have rediscovered the biggest predator in Earth’s history: an exceptionally gigantic Otodus megalodon specimen from Denmark, informally nicknamed “Ragnarok”. The beast was found with basking shark remnants thought to be potential stomach contents, and is calculated by researchers to have reached over 24 meters long and weighed roughly one hundred metric tonnes. Ragnarok is known from enormous preserved vertebrae that were thought to be lost: these vertebrae are described by a new study’s authors as being not only the biggest shark vertebrae ever found, but possibly the biggest non-tetrapod vertebrae known from the entire fossil record. Let’s break this down.
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Paleontologists have rediscovered the biggest predator in Earth’s history: an exceptionally gigantic Otodus megalodon specimen from Denmark, informally nicknamed “Ragnarok”. The beast was found with basking shark remnants thought to be potential stomach contents, and is calculated by researchers to have reached over 24 meters long and weighed roughly one hundred metric tonnes. Ragnarok is known from enormous preserved vertebrae that were thought to be lost: these vertebrae are described by a new study’s authors as being not only the biggest shark vertebrae ever found, but possibly the biggest non-tetrapod vertebrae known from the entire fossil record. Let’s break this down.
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