A discovery that would've been quite huge, literally, got people talking this week about an extinct shark that lived millions of years ago, the megalodon ... jokes and more scientific approaches.

scientific advancements and more. Paleobiologist Dr. Kenshu Shimada has been fascinated by fossil sharks, including the giant Otodus megalodon, since childhood — he found his first megalodon ...

Instead, minerals in fossilized teeth reveal that megalodon might have been an opportunistic feeder to meet its remarkable ...

Learn how a study of fossilized teeth has changed what we thought we knew about megalodon’s diet.

Daniel Knighton/Getty Images Paleontologists estimated ... to estimate the true breadth of the megalodon. Their findings were published in Scientific Reports in 2020. The project was supervised ...

(Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images ... this new finding marks a major scientific breakthrough in the quest to decipher what Megalodon looked like.” ...

Despite this, no whole megalodon (Otodus megalodon) skeleton has ever been discovered, so most of the scientific research ...

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. (Image Courtesy of ... and our editors review for scientific ...

“There was also a megalodon skull found in Peru that apparently has a crushed braincase and all the teeth, with a small string of vertebrae,” says Emma, “although I have yet to see high-quality images ...