New research suggests that the prehistoric megalodon, the biggest shark known to have existed, was even larger than we ...

three times longer than the largest recorded great white shark. It may have been comparable in length to today's biggest whale sharks, the largest of which has measured in at 18.8 metres. Without a ...

Famously, the Megalodon was the biggest shark in the world, and one of the most powerful predators to have ever lived. Formally called Otodus megalodon, it is commonly portrayed as a gigantic ...

three times longer than the largest recorded great white shark. It may have been comparable in length to today's biggest whale sharks, the largest of which has measured in at 18.8 metres. Without a ...

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 ...

It's bigger than the biggest whale shark, which is the largest fish found ... Watch the video above to see how big the megalodon's tooth compares to that of a great white shark.

A new Flinders University-led research paper, published in Marine Environmental Research, shows that chemicals used to ...