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.

Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists ...

The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong ...

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

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

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

Everyone's favorite prehistoric shark may have been much sleeker and much larger than previously thought. A new study ...

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

Scientists say the megalodon was a "longer, sleeker super predator" The post Megalodon’s shape was more like whales than ...

Lemon Shark, Negaprion brevirostris ... study also revisited an analysis of fossilized placoid scales, or tiny tooth-like scales that cover sharks, from the megalodon. What they found was that ...

Some paleontologists have used teeth or the vertebral columns of great ... the megalodons may have resembled a giant version of a lemon shark (one shown in the Bahamas). Photograph by David ...