‘Super fun’: The tale of how a prehistoric shark became Maryland’s official state shark

‘Super fun’: The tale of how a prehistoric shark became Maryland’s official state shark

A fanciful model of megalodon, Maryland's new state shark, at the Calvert Marine Museum on April 15, 2026. (Photo by Alexander Taylor/Capital News Service)By Alex Taylor As paleontologist Stephen Godfrey walked into the Calvert Marine Museum one morning in April, staff members congratulated him. In a way, he had brought an extinct species back to life. Two days earlier, in the final hours of Maryland’s legislative session, lawmakers passed a bil…