The megalodon, the biggest predatory shark of all time, watched over its young by raising them in defined geographic areas known as nurseries
The enormous, extinct shark megalodon probably doesn’t make you think of parenting and play dates. But a growing body of evidence suggests that these massive marine predators nurtured their babies by raising them in nurseries, and scientists have added five potential megalodon nurseries to the list. These baby-shark grounds are showing up all over. Scientists reported in 2010 that they had identified a megalodon nursery in Panama. Recently another team of researchers described a new megalodon nursery site in northeastern Spain; fossils of fully grown sharks and youngsters were found together, with most of the fossils belonging to juveniles and newborns.