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 ...

Exactly how large megalodon was in real life is a long-standing mystery ... closer in build to a sleek lemon shark than a chunky great white, according to the study published Sunday in the ...

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 ...

The giant extinct shark species known as the megalodon has captured the interest ... amazing biology we've learned about this iconic, real species that existed, and reduce it to what I can only ...

there’s something about Megalodon that grips the imagination like no other. Fossilized shark teeth are some of the most abundant remnants of prehistoric oceans, providing scientists with crucial ...

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 ...

"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.

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 ...