Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins, whales and large sea cows roamed the world’s oceans, topping the underwater food chain. Yet back then, any one of these creatures ...

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

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

If there’s anywhere Team Lemon (formerly Team Mako) and Team Great White may find common ground, it’s megalodon speed. Rather ...

Armed with a near-complete Megalodon vertebral column from Belgium, they filled in the missing pieces by looking at the proportions of 145 modern and 20 extinct sharks. If Megalodon followed the ...

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

In this video, we’ll learn about just how big great white sharks really are and how scientists can use their teeth to ...

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

More there’s something about Megalodon that grips the imagination like no other. Fossilized shark teeth are some ... insights into the lives of long-extinct species. While fossils have a way ...

The biggest, most formidable shark to have ever roamed the ocean may have been even larger than previously thought, according to a new study. The research, published Sunday in the journal ...

Megalodon may have had a long, sleek body Shimada and his team compared 145 species of living sharks and 20 species of extinct sharks and built a database of the proportions of their heads ...