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- Denmark's Museum of Southern Jutland recovered the lost 11-million-year-old Megalodon vertebrae, allowing scientists to revise size estimates.
- The 23 cm-wide vertebrae suggest Otodus megalodon could have exceeded 24 metres in length.
- Researchers estimate a newborn O. megalodon may have been 3.6 metres long and lived nearly a century.
- The vertebrae were believed destroyed during a 1989 transfer from Copenhagen's Geological Museum to the Museum of Southern Jutland.
