Megalodons have been portrayed as gigantic great whites, but new research suggests they were more svelte and less agile ...

A recent discovery by the National Park Service in the Kentucky Mammoth Cave National Park led the world one step closer to ...

Over the last half billion years, sharks have left behind a diverse fossil record of biological innovation and experimentation, but it’s limited almost entirely to fossilized teeth and jaws. While ...

Faster than any shark alive today and big enough to eat an orca in just five bites: A new study suggests the extinct shark known as a megalodon was an even more impressive superpredator than ...

Extinct megalodon shark was even bigger than previously thought New research reignites debate over the size of this extinct giant, also suggesting it looked unlike a great white By Elizabeth Hlavinka ...

Many scientists are unsure how and what made this enormous creature go extinct, but a 2019 study raised the possibility of the evolution of the great white shark being a reason. Now, a new study ...

The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago, and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth. But there's debate over what it looked like.

Great white sharks and megalodon, which once coexisted, likely hunted some of the same prey. This competition could potentially have been one reason why megalodon went extinct, a new study has ...

Shark Week 2013’s fake megalodon “documentary” had people furious, ... (Spoiler alert: they’re extinct.) Scientists estimate these sharks, ...

A discovery that would've been quite huge, literally, got people talking this week about an extinct shark that lived millions of years ago, the megalodon. Researchers from the Atlantic Shark ...

Gigantic extinct sharks have something to tell us from millions of years ago, and paleontologists are only just beginning to unravel that message. In a series of firsts, paleontologists have ...

Megalodons—the iconic extinct sharks that dominated the ocean millions of years ago—have been portrayed in Hollywood blockbusters and sci-fi novels as oversize great white sharks. But new ...