Great white sharks may have helped drive megalodons to extinction
Analyzing shark teeth hints that the two ocean hunters competed for food
![illustration of megalodon about to eat a pod of toothed whales](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/053122_cg_megalodon_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
Ancient shark teeth suggest that megalodons (shown in this artist’s illustration) and great whites munched on the same types of marine mammals.
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