Even bigger than ‘The Meg’: This is how long the largest shark that ever lived was according to a new study
New research suggests that the prehistoric megalodon, the biggest shark known to have existed, was even larger than we ...
Megalodon's body size and form uncover why certain aquatic vertebrates can achieve gigantism
A new study provides many new insights into the biology of the prehistoric gigantic shark megalodon (megatooth shark), which lived nearly worldwide 15–3.6 million years ago. Paleobiology professor ...
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Some Megalodons Reached 80 Feet—But They Weren’t Built Like Great Whites, Research Suggests
From this data they extrapolated that the prehistoric shark, sometimes called a megatooth shark, could have grown to a maximum size of 80 feet (24 meters) in length. Their study, published today ...
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The Massive Megalodon May Have Been Even Longer and Sleeker
(Image Courtesy of: Albert Kok) We’re gonna need a bigger shark size estimate. Researchers had based some informed guesses about just how massive the megalodon — a prehistoric giant fish that hunted ...
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Megalodon may have been much bigger than we thought
Everyone's favorite prehistoric shark may have been much sleeker and ... This figure falls in line with previous body size estimates, but that being said … Whereas the largest vertebra of ...
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A longer, sleeker super predator: Megalodon's true form
The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer ... a megalodon could have been nearly 13 feet long, roughly the size of an adult great white shark. "It is entirely possible that ...
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Megalodon’s body size and form uncover why certain aquatic vertebrates can achieve gigantism
CHICAGO — A new scientific study provides many new insights into the biology of the prehistoric gigantic shark, Megalodon or ... all previous papers on body size and shape estimates of O.