Researchers presented the ancient shark's remains in several glass cases, including a giant, sharp-toothed jaw in ... giant shark fossil is probably an ancestor of the great white shark, the ...

For centuries scientists have imagined megalodon as an oversized great white shark. But would another shark provide a better ...

The jaws of a Port Jackson shark ... For example, we know that the extinct giant mako shark, Isurus hastalis, is the ancestor of today’s great white shark. The fossil record reveals a transitional ...

Sharks have been around for hundreds of millions of years, appearing in the fossil ... of shark. Only the smallest and deep-water species that fed primarily on fish survived. An extinct megalodon ...

The fossil is from the left side an upper jaw, Godfrey also said, adding that the size of the tooth indicated that the shark — considered by scientists to be a "transoceanic superpredator," acco ...

The now-extinct megalodon shark may have been larger than first believed, reaching lengths of 80 feet (24.3 meters), according to a new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica last week. This is ...

The great white shark of "Jaws" fame, which loses a game of oceanic cat-and-mouse after eating several people, is a legendary Hollywood monster. The hellish creature didn't come solely from writer ...