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

A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists ...

The biggest, most formidable shark to have ever roamed the ocean may have been even larger than previously thought, according to a new study. The research, published Sunday in the journal ...

New research suggests that the prehistoric megalodon, the biggest shark known to have existed, was even larger than we ...

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

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 ...

This shark likely wasn’t done growing just yet, however, and if we scale up that size to the largest Megalodon vertebrae found in Denmark, we get a shark that’s a whopping 24.3 meters (80 feet) long.

Part of the research involved comparing sections of the megalodon's trunk with the trunks of 145 modern and 20 extinct shark species. The largest megalodon fossil ever found is a 36-foot-long (11 m) ...

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

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 ...

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