A new study has uncovered evidence of far-reaching ecosystem consequences following the disappearance of Great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) from False Bay, South Africa. The research spans ...

The sheer size of the Megalodon would allow it to swallow smaller prey, including a Great White, with relative ease. Carcharocles (Carcharodon) megalodon. Image by Gunnar Ries Amphibol, CC BY-SA 3.0, ...

Scientists have reexamined the total body length of the megalodon, finding it to be as much as 30 feet (nine metres) longer than previously thought. Humans never coexisted with the prehistoric shark.

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A new study suggests that the megalodon wasn't as stocky as the great white shark, and that it could have reached over 24 m (80 ft) in length. As is the case with other prehistoric sharks ...

The megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon, is an iconic shark represented primarily by its gigantic teeth in the Neogene fossil record, but the lack of well-preserved skeletons has hampered the ...

Few prehistoric monsters capture the imagination quite like the megalodon. From natural history museums to the silver screen, this colossal shark, which went extinct over three million years ago ...

A recent study has reshaped our understanding of megalodon (Otodus megalodon), the legendary prehistoric shark that ruled the oceans millions of years ago. Long believed to resemble an oversized great ...

The research, published Sunday in the journal “Palaeontologia Electronica,” suggests that the megalodon, which dominated the ocean 3.5 million years ago, was more than three times the size of ...

Yet back then, any one of these creatures could become prey to the ocean's fiercest apex predator: the megalodon, a giant shark with massive teeth and a body the size of a whale. In many ways ...