Otodus megalodon was the largest predatory fish in Earth's history. Measuring up to 24 meters, it was longer than a truck with a trailer and weighed almost twice as much. Embedded in its jaws were ...

Verification awaits a complete skeleton discovery. For years, scientists assumed that the massive megalodon resembled an oversized great white shark. But what if that assumption was wrong?

Scientists examined a partial megalodon spinal column discovered in Belgium, measuring about 11 meters (36 feet). By comparing these remains with the body proportions of numerous shark species, they ...

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.

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 ...

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The species lived some 3.6 million years ago, and no complete skeleton has yet been found. So there has been considerable debate among paleobiologists about megalodon's size, body shape ...

Recent study of megalodon’s scale shapes, based on a partial skeleton found in Japan, revealed that it was generally a slow-cruising shark capable of an occasional burst of speed to catch its prey.

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