Megalodons have been portrayed as gigantic great whites, but new research suggests they were more svelte and less agile ...

Megalodon teeth are the largest of all shark species. With teeth that can measure up to the size of a human hand, it is easy ...

Based on one such spinal skeleton of the megalodon, a new study published in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica reports that the giant shark stretched 54 feet in length, or about the size of ...

Phillip Sternes, a shark biologist from the University of California, Riverside, led a team that re-evaluated these assumptions.Instead of relying solely on tooth size, they examined megalodon ...

Megalodon, simply known as the Meg, was the fiercest and the largest aquatic predator to have ever lived on Earth. The prehistoric shark went extinct around 2.6 million years ago.

New research into the ancient megalodon shark species has revealed the most accurate estimates of its size to date. The creatures could grow to 59 feet in length, according to researchers.

The team combined scans and measurements of the 141 vertebrae with data on megalodon teeth. The skull and flesh of the body was modeled after a great white shark.

Based on the existing literature, the Megalodon quite possibly gave birth to the largest shark babies in the world — past or present. This big size would have allowed the Megalodon to survive in ...

Faster than any shark alive today and big enough to eat an orca in just five bites: A new study suggests the extinct shark known as a megalodon was an even more impressive superpredator than ...

A charter boat captain found a whopping 6.25-inch long megalodon shark tooth in Florida. The tooth probably belongs to a giant megalodon that would have measured around 50 feet in size.

Maybe megalodon wasn’t so chonky after all. A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists agree.

The largest shark discovered to date — the monstrous Otodus megalodon — may have been a sleek, long-bodied leviathan.. A fresh look at the extinct predator’s fossilized remains suggests its ...