For years, the megalodon has been imagined as a monstrous version of the great white shark. Depictions in movies and documentaries show a stocky, torpedo-shaped predator, built for speed and power.

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

If there’s anywhere Team Lemon (formerly Team Mako) and Team Great White may find common ground, it’s megalodon speed. Rather ...

which is the average size of a blue whale and roughly equal to the height of the White House. Finding out details about how this gigantic shark survived and eventually went extinct can help us ...

Scientists say the megalodon was a "longer, sleeker super predator" The post Megalodon’s shape was more like whales than sharks: study appeared first on Talker.

Marine wildlife advocates condemned the recent killing of a blue shark (Prionace glauca), and its pups, and called on the ...

While the whale shark is certainly a big animal, it’s considerably smaller than the blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, which is the biggest animal in the world. The largest blue whale ever recorded ...

The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...

we got the phone call - a dead sperm whale had been found off the coast of the Azores. It was being devoured by blue sharks and, should enough blubber be eaten, it could sink of its own accord at ...