The biggest, most formidable shark to have ever roamed the ocean may have been even larger than previously thought, according to a new study. The research, published Sunday in the journal ...

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 ...

1: The fossil tooth was thought to be the 'dragon's tongue' Megalodon's teeth can reach 10-12 cm in length, so people in medieval Europe thought that the fossils of Megalodon's teeth were petrified by ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. When Tim Flannery was a boy he found a fossilised tooth of a giant shark at a Port Philip Bay beach ...

A monstrous shark, predating whales, great whites, or even the bus-sized megalodon, once prowled the waters off what is now northern Australia during the Cretaceous period. Researchers, studying huge ...

Shark biologists now say a lemon shark, like this one, is a better model of the extinct megalodon's body than the great white shark. The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white ...

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Long before Jaws, long before Megalodon, and even long before Tyrannosaurus rex prowled the land, a colossal shark patrolled the ancient seas of what is now northern Australia. New research reveals ...

The now-extinct megalodon shark may have been larger than first believed, reaching lengths of 80 feet (24.3 meters), according to a new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica last week. This is ...

A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists agree. This illustration of megalodon may be wrong. The ancient predatory ...