Teeth from sharks and rays can be used to study their diet, but one of the biggest challenges in shark science is collecting ...

Unless someone invents time travel, we will never see a real-life woolly mammoth, saber-tooth tiger, or dinosaur. Those animals went extinct millions of years ... Although lake sturgeons look like ...

The harrowing scream of a man in his 30s cleared swimmers in a Western Australian beach Monday and authorities are still searching for the surfer after he was attack by a shark. The unidentified ...

Listen to Story The team used a new approach to estimate the shark’s total body length They relied on the megalodon’s vertebral column They compared it to over 100 species of living and extinct sharks ...

Therefore, Stearns' research team investigated the fossils of Megalodon and compared them with 145 species of living sharks and 20 species of extinct sharks. In a study using Megalodon vertebrae ...

It's not good news for directors of gruesome shark films: the extinct megalodon mega-shark may not have been an enlarged version of the bulky great white shark, but a much slimmer creature.

Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins, whales and large sea cows roamed the world’s oceans, topping the underwater food chain. Yet back then, any one of these creatures ...

The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong. The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body—closer in ...

Scientists have discovered that the long-extinct megalodon, also known as the megatooth shark, had a body temperature 7 degrees Celsius warmer than the surrounding seawater. This information might ...

June 22, 2022 — Megalodon sharks, which went extinct about 3 million years ago, were three times longer than modern great white sharks and were apex predators at highest trophic level ever measured.

Shark biologists now say a lemon shark, like this one, is a better model of the extinct megalodon's body than the great white shark. The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white ...