Megalodon attack – bite marks indicate Megalodon damaged its own teeth when biting on dislodged teeth.

Examining fossil Megalodon teeth shows common types of damage associated with predation.  

Many Megalodon teeth show evidence of bite marks, which are often attributed to a Megalodon biting its own lost tooth during a ‘feeding frenzy’, but cutting into a hard object which is not fixed or held in place is difficult to do.

The bite marks on the fossils in the photographs below suggest these teeth were fixed in the sharks mouth and the ‘V’ notch in the tooth was caused when it bit into one of its own dislodged teeth which was embedded in the prey animal.

As such, these teeth represent a classic example of predator/prey interaction.

Posted: 19 February 2014.