MEGALODON may have grown to a staggering 80 feet in length – and weighted 94 tons. The staggering size of the prehistoric ...

Megalodon was likely a long, streamlined predator, not a bulky giant. Scientists compared its bones with modern sharks.

The giant extinct shark species known as the megalodon has captured the interest of scientists and the general public alike, ...

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

since childhood — he found his first megalodon tooth at 13 years old. So when he saw the 2018 blockbuster “The Meg,” he thought something was fishy. Not only did the movie depict the long ...

While fans of the movie and novel “Jaws” might envision an encounter with a 22-foot great white shark as being daunting, ...

Researchers refined their size estimates of the prehistoric shark by studying the bodily proportions of 165 other shark ...

The usual way to guess at the size of a megalodon is by taking tooth measurements – and doing some guesswork from there. But scientists at DePaul University and University of California ...

While fans of the movie and novel “Jaws” might envision an encounter with a 22-foot great white shark as being daunting, ...

The fossil record only contains vertebrae, teeth, scales ... whites is part of what lead to the megalodon’s eventual extinction. Cooper found the biggest baby aspect “pretty exciting ...