A humungous shark that lived 115 million years ago surpassed the size of modern-day great whites, paleontologists discovered ...

an illustration of a megalodon just beneath the surface of th water looking up with its mouth open Yet rumors persist that these supersized sharks are still alive, with TikTok and YouTube videos ...

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 ...

Fossils reveal that giant predatory sharks existed 15 million years before megalodon and were already top predators in Cretaceous seas.

Quick Take Ancient shark predates Megalodon by about 90 million years, dating to roughly 115 million years ago in the ...

Was the Megalodon shark actually as massive and monstrous as it has looked in sci-fi movies? A new study has found that the Megalodon shark was actually not like a gigantic great white shark. The ...

In most depictions of the extinct megalodon shark, it looks pretty much like a super-sized version of its modern relative, the great white. According to a new study, however, it may actually have been ...

Millions of years ago, a shark that would dwarf even the largest of its modern relatives plied the waters of the earth. Called the megalodon, the creature could grow to almost 60 feet in length. But ...

Megalodons were the biggest sharks on the planet. Recent studies show how these apex predators reached lengths of 50 feet with heads the size of cars.

The most common way that Megalodon is portrayed is... well, like this. A shark that looks like a giant great white. “The study may appear to be a step backward in science, but the continued mystery ...

“It makes you want to spend your whole day hunting, thinking that more must be out there,” said Danner, who found both teeth at Fernandina Beach. Megalodon teeth are prized items for amateur ...

Analyzing if Megalodon was simply a giant version of a great white shark or a separate species.