The megalodon was thought to look like a supersized great white shark, but a new study suggests otherwise. Using a great white to "reconstruct the body form of Megalodon lacks empirical fossil support ...

Roaming the ancient seas eons ago, the megalodon shark eviscerated its prey with jaws that were 10 feet wide. Warpaintcobra/iStock via Getty Images Plus Imagine traveling back in time and observing ...

A humungous shark that lived 115 million years ago surpassed the size of modern-day great whites, paleontologists discovered ...

Millions of years ago, a shark that would dwarf even the largest of its modern relatives plied the waters of the earth. Called the megalodon, the creature could grow to almost 60 feet in length. But ...

Ask any marine enthusiast about the most terrifying ocean predator of all time, and they won’t talk about a great white shark. Instead, they’ll probably name the great white’s ancient competitor, ...

Thankfully for surfers and ocean swimmers, the megalodon shark went extinct around three million years ago. Much of what we do know about this fearsome creature comes from studies of its massive teeth ...

Scientists behind a new study that compared the bones of a great white shark to the fossilised vertebrae of an ancient Megalodon believe that the ancient apex predators may have been even longer, and ...

Like a lot of prehistoric real-life monsters, the Megalodon shark was a cut above. The extinct shark species, Otodus megalodon, is part of the extinct group of megatooth sharks. It's considered to be ...

Some fossilized teeth from giant ancient megalodon sharks have unique scratches on them. These scratches, researchers believe, were possibly caused by the serrated cutting edge of other megalodon ...

Jacob Danner found two megalodon teeth along Florida’s Fernandina Beach, one following Tropical Storm Elsa. The megalodon was a nearly 60-foot long and 50-ton ancient shark that lived in the ocean ...

It’s rare to find someone who hasn’t heard about Megalodon, a massive shark species that inhabited various regions of the world approximately 15-3.6 million years ago. Long-gone now, scientists are ...

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