“The previously published reconstruction of megalodon skeleton and body shape looked very awkward,” stated Kenshu Shimada, one of the study’s authors and a paleobiologist at DePaul ...

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.

Scientists have discovered that the long-extinct megalodon, also known as the megatooth shark, had a body temperature 7 degrees Celsius warmer than the surrounding seawater. This information might ...