If there’s anywhere Team Lemon (formerly Team Mako) and Team Great White may find common ground, it’s megalodon speed. Rather ...

The megalodon, this extinct giant of the seas, may not have been the stocky colossus we thought. A new study suggests that ...

It hasn't been easy forming a picture of the megalodon, a massive shark that dominated the oceans millions of years ago, ...

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

“Megalodon is not a simple ... Meanwhile, sleeker animals such as blue whales, which can grow up to about 100 feet (30 meters) long, can attain enormous lengths while still swimming well.

It also likely weighed an estimated 94 tons, comparable to a large blue whale, but with a body designed for energy-efficient ...

"If you stay in a skinnier body, there is a better chance of being able to grow larger," Shimada said. This principle applies ...

Because even larger megalodon vertebrae have been discovered ... which is the average size of a blue whale and roughly equal to the height of the White House. Finding out details about how this ...

The research, published Sunday in the journal “Palaeontologia Electronica,” suggests that the megalodon, which dominated the ocean 3.5 million years ago, was more than three times the size of ...