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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientifically known as Otodus megalodon, the Neogene-era shark is estimated to have reached lengths of 50 to 65 feet (15 to 20 meters) and once belonged to a lineage of sharks that evolved during ...