Megalodon have always been compared to the modern great white shark. Scientists have found a reason why it shouldn't be.

The now-extinct megalodon shark may have been larger than first believed, reaching lengths of 80 feet (24.3 meters), ...

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

A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists ...

Exactly how large megalodon was in real life is a long-standing mystery — no complete fossils have ever been discovered ... Neither shark backbone specimens were found with the massive, serrated ...