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

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

Experts have said the prehistoric predator the Megaladon was a ‘sleeker’ creature than the one portrayed in the 2018 movie, where a beast akin to a great white shark wrought havoc in the ocean. Using ...

Until recently, estimates have suggested megalodon grew to between 15 and 18 metres in length, three times longer than the largest recorded great white shark. It may have been comparable in length to ...

Megalodon was likely a long, streamlined predator, not a bulky giant. Scientists compared its bones with modern sharks.

The giant extinct shark species known as the megalodon has captured the interest of scientists and the general public alike, ...

The infamous beast, The Meg, that terrorised divers in the blockbuster film of the same name was closer to a whale, research ... most robust analysis yet of megalodon’s body size and shape.’ ...

The megalodon, this extinct giant of the seas, may not have been the stocky colossus we thought. A new study suggests that this legendary predator had a longer and more slender body, resembling ...

Yet back then, any one of these creatures could become prey to the ocean's fiercest apex predator: the megalodon, a giant shark with massive teeth and a body the size of a whale. In many ways ...

The Meg was shaped more like a whale than the giant great white shark in the Jason Statham movies, suggests new research. Megalodon, the prehistoric ocean hunter, was a "longer, sleeker super ...

But scientists now think the enormous creature looked "closer in shape to a lemon shark or even a large whale". The usual way to guess at the size of a megalodon is by taking tooth measurements ...