The giant extinct shark species known as the megalodon has captured the interest of scientists and the general public alike, even inspiring the 2018 blockbuster film The Meg. The species lived ...

For context, adult human vertebrae are roughly 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) in diameter. Neither shark backbone specimens were found with the massive, serrated teeth associated with megalodon ...

Illustration of a megalodon compared to a human. (UCR) “By examining megalodon’s vertebral column and comparing it to over 100 species of living and extinct sharks, (researchers) determined a ...

As one of the largest predators to have ever lived, megalodon captures people's imagination - and for good reason. But was this apex predator simply a beefed-up great white shark, and is it still ...

Famously, the Megalodon was the biggest shark in the world, and one of the most powerful predators to have ever lived. Formally called Otodus megalodon, it is commonly portrayed as a gigantic ...

For example, a 24.3-meter-long O. megalodon would have weighed around 94 tons, and the cruising speed estimated from scale morphology was 2.1–3.5 kilometers (1.3–2.2 miles) per hour, which is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Molly Sampson told her mother that she wanted to find an extinct "meg" fossil while searching for at a local beach on Christmas morning — then did just that Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest ...

For context, adult human vertebrae are roughly 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) in diameter. Neither shark backbone specimens were found with the massive, serrated teeth associated with megalodon, but ...