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

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 ...

Fortunately, sharks produce thousands of teeth during their lifetimes, providing researchers with ample material to study. When fossil hunting, genuine megalodon teeth can be distinguished from ...

A Saint John auction house has opened online bidding on a collection of megalodon shark teeth that are millions of years old.

Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists ...

Megalodon was likely a long, streamlined predator, not a bulky giant. Scientists compared its bones with modern sharks.

serrated teeth. But Sternes said those studies relied on assumptions about similarities between only the two shark species. The new study compared megalodon fossils with more than 150 living ...

Researchers in this study also revisited an analysis of fossilized placoid scales, or tiny tooth-like scales that cover sharks, from the megalodon. What they found was that these scales did not ...

New research suggests that the prehistoric megalodon, the biggest shark known to have existed, was even larger than we ...

The giant extinct shark species known as the megalodon has captured the interest of scientists and the general public alike, ...

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