MEGALODON may have grown to a staggering 80 feet in length – and weighted 94 tons. The staggering size of the prehistoric killing machine has been revealed in a study that reveals what the ocean ...

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

Scientists have discovered that the long-extinct megalodon, also known as the megatooth shark, had a body temperature 7 degrees Celsius warmer than the surrounding seawater. This information might ...

The research, published Sunday in the journal “Palaeontologia Electronica,” suggests that the megalodon, which dominated the ocean 3.5 million years ago, was more than three times the size of ...

Few prehistoric monsters capture the imagination quite like the megalodon. From natural history museums to the silver screen, this colossal shark, which went extinct over three million years ago ...

If you picture a megalodon, chances are you envision what amounts to a gigantic great white shark. The image is understandable, given almost every depiction of the ancient apex predators across ...

The infamous beast, The Meg, that terrorised divers in the blockbuster film of the same name was closer to a whale, research suggests. Experts have said the prehistoric predator the Megaladon was ...

A new study has revealed that the megalodon, the largest shark to ever roam the oceans, could have reached lengths of up to 80 feet—far surpassing earlier estimates. Previously thought to ...

Between around 20 million and 3.6 million years ago, Megalodon ruled the seas of ancient Earth. As no complete megalodon (Otodus megalodon) skeletons have ever been found, so our knowledge of ...