Finally, they used the morphology of living South African great whites to fill in the gaps and add flesh around the skeleton ... megalodon still existed, it could not only swallow you whole ...

The Otodus megalodon ... sit on the megalodon’s skeleton. With a complete 3D rendering, they came up with estimates for the volume and body mass of the shark’s whole body.

s 2022 reconstruction, to a CT scan of the whole vertebral skeleton of a living great white shark. The team concluded that based on the spinal column, it was much more likely that the megalodon ...

Despite this, no whole megalodon (Otodus megalodon) skeleton has ever been discovered, so most of the scientific research about them comes from fossils of their vertebrae scales and teeth.

But whole portions of megalodon remain a mystery ... until they can either be empirically tested, or a complete skeleton of megalodon is found to confirm one way or the other,” says Cooper.

As a shark, megalodon is part of the family of cartilaginous fishes. “They have a very poorly mineralized skeleton. There are no true bones that make the skeleton hard,” Shimada said.

When I die, if hopefully I enter the fossil record, I only have one skeleton to give ... You know, we're not just finding megalodon alone. There's this whole ecosystem of fossils from the same ...

Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins, whales and large sea cows roamed the world’s oceans, topping the underwater food chain. Yet back then, any one of these creatures ...