Using a great white to "reconstruct the body form of Megalodon lacks empirical fossil support," says the the study by 26 shark experts. The study, published by the journal Palaeontologia ...

And just like the great white shark inspired Jaws ... the fast-moving predator megalodon (formally Otodus megalodon). Due to incomplete fossil data, we're not entirely sure how large megalodons ...

megalodon had a more slender body than the great white shark was hidden in plain sight." The researchers re-analyzed fossils and previously published studies to draw their conclusions.

"Basically, if you found a great white [shark's] vertebra," says Sternes ... same logic to a vertebra from the most complete Megalodon fossil there is. The result was that the specimen would ...

Megalodon, the ancient shark often depicted as a super-sized great white, was in fact a rather different beast, according to a new analysis of fossil evidence. The fearsome predator was longer ...

The tip of a megalodon tooth is preserved in this fossil whale rib bone. Most reconstructions show megalodon looking like an enormous great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias. This is now believed to ...

Along with teeth, the existing fossil record includes parts ... to question the underlying assumption that megalodon looked like a huge great white shark. In reviewing a August 2022 paper, in ...

The massive megalodon was not hunting only large marine mammals such as whales as researchers widely thought, a new study of ...

Unlike bone, cartilage is seldom preserved in the fossil record ... traditionally assumed that the megalodon was closely related to the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and even ...

Otodus megalodon was the largest predatory fish in Earth's history. Measuring up to 24 meters, it was longer than a truck with a trailer and weighed almost twice as much. Embedded in its jaws were ...

The tip of a megalodon tooth is preserved in this fossil whale rib bone. Most reconstructions show megalodon looking like an enormous great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias. This is now believed to ...