A recent study has reshaped our understanding of megalodon (Otodus megalodon), the legendary prehistoric shark that ruled the ...

Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists ...

The biggest, most formidable shark to have ever roamed the ocean may have been even larger than previously thought, according to a new study. The research, published Sunday in the journal ...

Kenshu Shimada has been fascinated by fossil sharks, including the giant Otodus megalodon ... such as a lemon shark. In this discovery, Shimada said, his team also stumbled upon a larger pattern ...

Yet back then, any one of these creatures could become prey to the ocean's fiercest apex predator: the megalodon, a giant shark with massive teeth and a body the size of a whale. In many ways ...

Kenshu Shimada has been fascinated by fossil sharks, including the giant Otodus megalodon ... such as a lemon shark. In this discovery, Shimada said, his team also stumbled upon a larger pattern ...

"This study provides the most robust analysis yet of megalodon's body size and shape," says marine biologist Phillip Sternes, formerly of the University of California Riverside, now at SeaWorld.

It's often thought that the megalodon would've looked a lot like a great white shark, but bigger. But scientists now think the enormous creature looked "closer in shape to a lemon shark or even a ...

Everyone's favorite prehistoric shark may have been much sleeker and much larger than previously thought. A new study suggests that the megalodon wasn't as stocky as the great white shark ...

The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong. The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body—closer in ...