Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back ...

Getty Image By now, I am sure you have heard of the infamous Megalodon. With films out like The Meg, it is hard to have never ...

Researchers examining large vertebrae discovered near Darwin identified the creature as the earliest known mega-predator in the lineage of modern sharks, living some 15 million years earlier than ...

This discovery highlights the enormous size and predatory dominance of ancient sharks and provides scientists with a new ...

Roaming the ancient seas eons ago, the megalodon shark eviscerated its prey with jaws that were 10 feet wide. Warpaintcobra/iStock via Getty Images Plus Imagine traveling back in time and observing ...

A dark grey silhouette depicting the previously reconstructed Otodus megalodon body form based largely on the modern white shark, superimposing a light grey outline showing the newly interpreted body ...

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 ...

The largest shark discovered to date — the monstrous Otodus megalodon — may have been a sleek, long-bodied leviathan. A fresh look at the extinct predator’s fossilized remains suggests its body was ...

A new study shows the Megalodon, a gigantic shark that went extinct 3.6 million years ago, was more slender than earlier studies suggested. This finding changes scientists’ understanding of Megalodon ...

As one of the largest predators to have ever lived, megalodon captures people’s imagination – and for good reason. But was this apex predator simply a beefed-up great white shark, and is it still ...

Megalodon teeth are the largest of all shark species. With teeth that can measure up to the size of a human hand, it is easy to imagine just how enormous these ancient sharks were. However, there is ...