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 ...

What’s more, he and his coauthors posit that megalodon was slenderer than previously thought, closer in build to a sleek lemon shark than a chunky great white, according to the study published ...

A surfer who was attacked by a shark off the coast of Australia on Monday is presumed dead, police said Tuesday. Officials received reports of the attack around 12:10 p.m. local time on Monday ...

Everyone's favorite prehistoric shark may have been much sleeker and much larger than previously thought. A new study suggests that the megalodon wasn't as stocky as the great white shark ...

There are growing fears the body of a surfer who was dragged away by a shark may never be found after police reviewed drone footage of the gruesome incident. Steven Jeffrey Payne, 37, from ...

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 ...

A woman has watched in horror as her partner was mauled by a shark in chest-deep water off a Western Australian beach. The man in his 30s was surfing off the coast of Wharton Beach in Cape Le ...

Laeticia Brouwer, 17, died after being bitten by a white shark in 2017 - while diver Gary Johnsson and surfer Andrew Sharpe died in separate incidents in 2020. And it comes just days after another ...

The study helps confirm the hypothesis that the megalodon was not “merely a gigantic version of the modern-day great white shark,” as previously thought, said Phillip Sternes, an educator at ...

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 ...