Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists ...

Few prehistoric monsters capture the imagination quite like the megalodon. From natural history museums to the silver screen, ...

Paleobiology Professor Kenshu Shimada is leading a study alongside 28 experts. A new scientific study offers significant ...

The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong ...

Everyone's favorite prehistoric shark may have been much sleeker and much larger than previously thought. A new study ...

It remains a sad fact of this world that we will never know for certain what the long-lost megalodon truly looked like – but a new study gives us what may be the most accurate reconstruction yet.

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 ...

That’s about the size of a Chihuahua. The giant goldfish in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service post, jokingly nicknamed “megalodon” after an ancient shark, was found in Lake Erie ...

If you picture a megalodon, chances are you envision what amounts to a gigantic great white shark. The image is understandable, given almost every depiction of the ancient apex predators across ...

For context, adult human vertebrae are roughly 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) in diameter. Neither shark backbone specimens were found with the massive, serrated teeth associated with megalodon ...