The research, published Sunday in the journal “Palaeontologia Electronica,” suggests that the megalodon ... And that longer length isn't just a fun fact about the fearsome creatures.

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“In short, everything presented here is interesting but should be taken with a grain of salt until they can either be empirically tested, or a complete skeleton of megalodon is found to confirm ...

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 ...

More there’s something about Megalodon that grips the imagination like no other. Fossilized shark teeth are some of the most abundant remnants of prehistoric oceans, providing scientists with ...

The giant extinct shark species known as the megalodon has captured the interest ... "I'd say everything presented here is interesting and presents an exciting working hypothesis but that these ...

The megalodon, this extinct giant of the seas, may not have been the stocky colossus we thought. A new study suggests that this legendary predator had a longer and more slender body, resembling more a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study suggests that the megalodon wasn't as stocky as the great white shark, and that it could have reached over 24 m (80 ft) in length. As is the case with other prehistoric sharks ...