The giant extinct shark species known as the megalodon has captured the interest of scientists and the general public alike, ...

Drawing on measurements from 145 modern shark species and 20 extinct species, the researchers concluded that the Belgian megalodon likely measured around 54 feet (16.4 meters) from nose to tail.

A new study has revealed fascinating details about the Megalodon, the massive prehistoric shark that lived between 15 to 3.6 ...

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 ...

A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists agree. This illustration of megalodon may be wrong. The ancient ...

As one of the largest predators to have ever lived, megalodon captures people's imagination - and for good reason. But was this apex predator simply a beefed-up great white shark, and is it still ...

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 ...

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 ...

More there’s something about Megalodon that grips the imagination like no other. Fossilized shark teeth are some of the most abundant remnants of prehistoric oceans, providing scientists with ...