Could a megalodon live in the Mariana Trench? It’s 10,984 metres from the ocean surface to the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean. That’s ...

The final management plan and environmental assessment for the Mariana Trench National Monument was released this month. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Oceanis and Atmospheric ...

Toothy clues: This extinct species (Carcharocles megalodon) left us a fossil record that consists mostly of isolated teeth – some of which are up to 7 inches long. Determining the body length ...

The image of a 75-foot-long shark that could swallow a Volkswagen whole never left Alten's mind, and 22 years later he published his first novel, Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror, a science-fiction ...

After seeing Steven Spielberg's Jaws as a teenager, Steve Alten went straight to his local public library and checked out every book he could find on great white sharks. In those texts, he ...