[Rockhounds] School lesson gone wrong leads to new, bigger megalodon size estimate

[Paul]

School lesson gone wrong leads to new, bigger megalodon
size estimate by Natalie van Hoose and Jerald Pinson
Florida Museum Research News, June 7, 2021
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/school-lesson-leads-to-bigger-megalodon-size/

The open access paper is:

Victor J. Perez, Ronny M. Leder, and Teddy Badaut, 2021,
Estimating lamniform body size to Body length estimation
of Neogene macrophagous lamniform sharks (Carcharodon
and Otodus) derived from associated fossil dentitions.
Palaeontologia electronica. Article number: 24.1.a09
https://doi.org/10.26879/1140
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2021/3284-estimating-lamniform-body-size

Yours,

Paul H.