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 ...

Megalodon once dominated Earth's oceans. Despite vanishing from the fossil record millions of years ago, rumors persist that these gigantic sharks are still alive.

It’s not surprising that the extinct, 24.3-metre-long shark Otodus megalodon is so popular. Imagining our oceans patrolled by a predatory fish three times the size of the great white shark from the ...

Traditionally, modern great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) have been used as a model for megalodon’s body shape.That’s because great whites are the largest predatory sharks alive today ...

If a Megalodon decided to make you its snack, you'd be in for a seriously wild ride. First off, you'd probably feel like you got sucked into a gigantic vacuum cleaner, with those massive jaws ...

Megalodon was the largest shark ever documented and one of the ... the Zurich study's data — 6 out of 10,000 simulations — showed a 1% chance that these giant sharks could still be alive.

Studies of fossilised megalodon and great white teeth show that their diets overlapped. But could megalodon still exist? “No. It’s definitely not alive in the deep oceans, despite what the Discovery ...

However, the current study did not use the great white as a proxy. Instead, the researchers compared the megalodon to more than 150 other species to estimate how big its head and tail were and ...

Cooper concluded that a megalodon would have been a stocky, powerful shark—measuring some 52 feet (16 meters) in length with a body mass of 67.86 tons—able to execute bursts of high speed to ...

The megalodon stalked the world’s oceans from about 20 million years ago, and likely measured up to 50 feet in length. That’s roughly three times larger than the modern great white shark.

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 ...