Using a great white to "reconstruct the body form of Megalodon lacks empirical fossil support," says the the study by 26 shark experts. The study, published by the journal Palaeontologia ...

The massive megalodon was not hunting only large marine mammals such as whales as researchers widely thought, a new study of ...

The tip of a megalodon tooth is preserved in this fossil whale rib bone. Most reconstructions show megalodon looking like an enormous great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias. This is now believed to ...

Unlike bone, cartilage is seldom preserved in the fossil record ... traditionally assumed that the megalodon was closely related to the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and even ...

Otodus megalodon was the largest predatory fish in Earth's history. Measuring up to 24 meters, it was longer than a truck ...

Along with teeth, the existing fossil record includes parts ... to question the underlying assumption that megalodon looked like a huge great white shark. In reviewing a August 2022 paper, in ...

This interpretation makes megalodon look just like a great white shark, but new research ... and anatomists analyzed partial megalodon fossils alongside the morphology of both existing and extinct ...

Additional newly inferred growth patterns along with the known fossil record of O. megalodon and the white shark lineage support the idea that the rise of the great white shark roughly 5 million ...

Great white ties: Based on details of Megalodon's fossil teeth, most researchers think they were relatives of the modern great white (Carcharodon carcharias), which is the largest species of ...

Using a great white to "reconstruct the body form of Megalodon lacks empirical fossil support," says the the study by 26 shark experts. The study, published by the journal Palaeontologia Electronica ...

The tip of a megalodon tooth is preserved in this fossil whale rib bone. Most reconstructions show megalodon looking like an enormous great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias. This is now believed to ...