The Megalodon, the largest shark to have ever lived, has been extinct for around 3.6 million years. Despite this, there is an ongoing fascination with the idea that this massive predator still lurks ...

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.

As for megalodon’s feeding habits, determining what it ate based on fossil evidence poses challenges, according to McCormack. “We know that they fed on large marine mammals from tooth bite ...

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 ...

What scientists understand about the voracious feeding habits of the colossal megalodon could be up for some revision.. The prehistoric predator that went extinct about 3.6 million years ago was ...

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 ...

Assuming that the megalodon was roughly proportional to the majority of other shark species, and extrapolating from the 36-foot (11 m) trunk section, the researchers estimated that this individual ...

In this study, Megalodon teeth consistently showed some of the lowest δ⁶⁶Zn values across the entire fossil dataset, placing them at the very top of the marine food web.

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 ...

But nobody has ever found a megalodon tooth that’s less than 3.5 million years old. That’s one of the reasons scientists believe megalodon went extinct then.

Megalodons have been portrayed as gigantic great whites, but new research suggests they were more svelte and less agile hunters that got outcompeted.