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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists previously thought, according to a new study.

After comparing portions of a megalodon’s vertebral column to over 100 species of living and extinct shark species, researchers now estimate the megalodon may have topped out at around 80-feet ...

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 ...

The massive megalodon was not hunting only large marine mammals such as whales as researchers widely thought, a new study of minerals in fossilized teeth has found.

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 ...

Maybe megalodon wasn’t so chonky after all. A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists agree.

Contrary to widespread assumptions, the largest shark that ever lived – Otodus megalodon – fed on marine creatures at various levels of the food pyramid and not just the top, as an ...