Comparing the prehistoric predator to today’s great white probably resulted in an underestimation.

A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists ...

Paleobiology Professor Kenshu Shimada is leading a study alongside 28 experts. A new scientific study offers significant ...

The tip of a megalodon tooth is preserved in this fossil whale rib bone Most reconstructions show megalodon looking like an enormous great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias. This is now believed to ...

A new study provides many new insights into the biology of the prehistoric gigantic shark megalodon (megatooth shark), which ...

The tip of a megalodon tooth is preserved in this fossil whale rib bone Most reconstructions show megalodon looking like an enormous great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias. This is now believed to ...

For years, the megalodon has been imagined as a monstrous version of the great white shark. Depictions in movies and ...

It remains a sad fact of this world that we will never know for certain what the long-lost megalodon truly looked like – but a new study gives us what may be the most accurate reconstruction yet.

A recent study has reshaped our understanding of megalodon (Otodus megalodon), the legendary prehistoric shark that ruled the ...

The Megalodon ruled the oceans for nearly 15 million years before going extinct 3.6 million years ago. At around three times the size of the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), it was the ...

Yet back then, any one of these creatures could become prey to the ocean's fiercest apex predator: the megalodon, a giant shark with massive teeth and a body the size of a whale. In many ways ...

The now-extinct megalodon shark may have been larger than first believed, reaching lengths of 80 feet (24.3 meters), according to a new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica last week.