The giant extinct shark species known as the megalodon has captured the interest of scientists and the general public alike, ...

HEARTSTOPPING footage shows the moment two giant whales move in to protect a diver from a bloodthirsty shark. Benoît Girodeau ...

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

Researchers refined their size estimates of the prehistoric shark by studying the bodily proportions of 165 other shark ...

Megalodon was likely a long, streamlined predator, not a bulky giant. Scientists compared its bones with modern sharks.

That suggests a truly gigantic body length of 24.3 m (79.7 ft ... bigger Shimada's team noted that existing gigantic sharks – namely the whale shark and basking shark – have relatively ...

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 ...

Scientists say the megalodon was a "longer, sleeker super predator" The post Megalodon’s shape was more like whales than ...

The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body—closer in shape to a lemon shark or even a large whale. The ...