Call me crazy, uneducated, or what-have-you, but I thought the ancient Megalodon shark was just a myth. A fabled creature, ...

Indeed, we only know that megalodon (Odotus megalodon) existed from the many teeth and a few vertebrae they left behind. Megalodon was the largest predator in the oceans for about 20 million years ...

a six-inch long megalodon tooth.Kristina Scott was diving off the coast of Venice when she made the find.Megalodons are an extinct species of shark that grew up to 60 feet long with a mouth full ...

A new study suggests the extinct megalodon shark species was larger than previously believed, with a potential length of up to 24 metres and weight of 94 tonnes. (Graham Thompson/CBC) A Saint John ...

The now-extinct megalodon shark may have been larger than first believed, reaching lengths of 80 feet (24.3 meters), according to a new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica last week.

b) Hypothetical morphologies of the sharks in (a) after applying a fineness ratio of 6.15. c) Conceptual and highly hypothetical reconstruction of Otodus megalodon with a fineness ratio of about 6.08, ...

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They compared this to more than 100 species of sharks (both living and extinct) to make a better estimate. And they think that it could've grown up to 24.3 metres in length – that's about 80 ...

It remains a sad fact of this world that we will never know for certain what the long-lost megalodon truly looked like – but a new study gives us what may be the most accurate reconstruction yet. An ...

The research, published Sunday in the journal “Palaeontologia Electronica,” suggests that the megalodon, which dominated the ocean 3.5 million years ago, was more than three times the size of ...

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The giant extinct shark species known as the megalodon has captured the interest of scientists and the general public alike, even inspiring the 2018 blockbuster film The Meg. The species lived ...