The lemon shark scours the sandy sea bed for food, but how does it get a good grip on hidden prey? Steve heads to the Bahamas in the Caribbean to dive with these feisty sharks. Steve Backshall ...

Lemon sharks are viviparous, in that they give birth to live young, so when a pup is born it is already a fully formed miniature shark. The mother will risk stranding herself in shallow waters to ...

As for body shape, taking the new length estimates into account, the lemon shark appears to be the closest modern analogue. "However, the exact position and shape of practically all the fins ...

What’s more, he and his coauthors posit that megalodon was slenderer than previously thought, closer in build to a sleek lemon shark than a chunky great white, according to the study published ...

In terms of today’s shark parallels, think less “mako” and more “lemon.” Megalodons may have resembled sleeker lemon sharks than great whites. Credit: Deposit Photos Rob de Vries The ...

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 ...

New research reveals that the megalodon likely had a slender body more akin to a lemon shark than a great white. This discovery suggests the ancient predator might have been as long as 80 feet ...

The new study compared megalodon fossils with more than 150 living and extinct shark species. It found the megalodon may have had a longer, more slender body resembling that of the modern lemon ...

The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong. The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body—closer in ...

it has emerged that the megalodon may have had a slim body shape like a lemon shark, rather than a stocky body shape like a great white shark. 'Giant primeval sharks such as whale sharks and ...