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

The largest kind of shark is called the whale shark, which has been known to get as large as 60-feet long, the Smithsonian ...

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 ...

National Megalodon Day is June 15 and celebrates the close relative to predatory fish, one that ruled the oceans 15 million ...

As Jaws celebrates its 50th anniversary, Science News explores the vast range of shark sizes, from megaladon to the dwarf lanternshark.

The transcriptome (or sum total of the messenger RNA) of the white shark showed greater similarity to the human transcriptome ...

Megalodon vs. great white shark ... We now know that the Megalodon was something else — in terms of size, shape and ancestry, and of biology, too,” Collareta said via email.

When Jaws first aired, scientists didn’t know how long sharks took to reproduce, or how many offspring a white shark could ...

Called the megalodon (Otodus megalodon), this giant shark grew up to 79 feet long, had teeth the size of human hands and could bite with the strength of an industrial hydraulic press.

The largest shark to ever live was likely the mighty megalodon ( Otodus megalodon ), which swam in prehistoric oceans from 23 to 3.6 million years ago and is now definitely extinct. Paleontologists ...