Megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, is famous for its huge, human-hand-sized teeth. However, there is little fossil evidence of its whole body. International researchers have now used an ...

Thankfully for surfers and ocean swimmers, the megalodon shark went extinct around three million years ago. Much of what we do know about this fearsome creature comes from studies of its massive teeth ...

This illustration provided by J. J. Giraldo depicts a 52-foot Otodus megalodon shark predating on a 26-foot Balaenoptera whale in the Pliocene epoch, between 5.4 to 2.4 million years ago. The giant ...

Scientists have used fossils to understand the lives of ancient megalodon sharks. They've discovered it weighed the same as ten elephants and could swim faster than the sharks we have today. A ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. About 23 to 3.6 million years ago, a shark roughly three times the ...

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Faster than any shark alive today and big enough to eat an orca in just five bites: A new study suggests the extinct shark known as a megalodon was an even more impressive superpredator than ...

The megalodon, a giant shark that went extinct some 3.6 million years ago, is famous for its utterly enormous jaws and correspondingly huge teeth. Recent studies have proposed that the megalodon was a ...

Paleobiologist Dr. Kenshu Shimada has been fascinated by fossil sharks, including the giant Otodus megalodon, since childhood — he found his first megalodon tooth at 13 years old. So when he saw the ...

Earlier this year, never-before-seen footage of the shipwreck of the Titanic was released just before the shipwreck’s 111th anniversary. Now, with deep-sea mapping, a digital 3D replica gives amazing ...

The reconstructed megadolon (Otodus megalodon) was 16 meters long and weighed over 61 tons. It was estimated that it could swim at around 1.4 meters per second, require over 98,000 kilo calories every ...