For centuries scientists have imagined megalodon as an oversized great white shark. But would another shark provide a better ...

As one of the largest predators to have ever lived, megalodon captures people's imagination - and for good reason. But was this apex predator simply a beefed-up great white shark, and is it ... their ...

The ocean’s most formidable cold-hearted killer, the long-extinct giant megalodon shark, may have been warm-blooded – which could have caused its disappearance more than three million years ago.

The length of this humongous shark was a whopping 16 ... three times that of a T-Rex. Is the megalodon still alive? Sorry to break this to you, but no, the Meg has been gone at least two million ...

The now-extinct megalodon shark may have been larger than first believed ... 20 million and 3.6 million years ago. Despite this, no whole megalodon (Otodus megalodon) skeleton has ever been ...

As a shark, megalodon is part of the family of cartilaginous fishes. “They have a very poorly mineralized skeleton. There are no true bones that make the skeleton hard,” Shimada said.

The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong. The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body—closer in ...

Turns out, the palm-sized tooth belonged to an animal that died at least 3.5 million years ago: an Otodus megalodon shark. "She told me she was wading in knee-deep water when she saw it and dove ...

A shark this size may have weighed up to 94 tonnes and cruised through the oceans at up to 3.5 kilometres per hour. This study also suggests that at birth, baby megalodons may have been up to 3.9 ...