Shimada said. The researchers calculated that the likeliest body plan for megalodon wouldn’t have been that of a stout, ...

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 ...

Ultimately, there’s just one way to know for certain how long megalodon was and what it looked like. “What we really need is the discovery of the complete skeleton,” Shimada said.

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This approach relies on statistical data and mathematical models. However, these estimates remain subject to margins of error, as body proportions can vary between species. The discovery of new ...

Megalodon is one of the biggest predators ever to have lived. The creature is believed to have died out around 3.6 million years ago. But it dominated oceans during life, and could've reached ...

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 ...

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 ...

A massive "megalodon" of a goldfish caught in Presque Isle, Pennsylvania, is a good reminder of why people shouldn't release their pets into the wild, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says.