The Megalodon, the largest shark to have ever lived, has been extinct for around 3.6 million years. Despite this, there is an ...

Megalodons have been portrayed as gigantic great whites, but new research suggests they were more svelte and less agile ...

Megalodon teeth are the largest of all shark species. With teeth that can measure up to the size of a human hand, it is easy to imagine just how enormous these ancient sharks were. However, there is ...

The massive Megalodon had a staggering 100,000 kilocalories-per-day nutritional demand—which it didn't always fill as expected.

As for megalodon’s feeding habits, determining what it ate based on fossil evidence poses challenges, according to McCormack. “We know that they fed on large marine mammals from tooth bite ...

Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists previously thought, according to a new study. CNN values your feedback 1.

Maybe megalodon wasn’t so chonky after all. A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists agree.

Cooper concluded that a megalodon would have been a stocky, powerful shark—measuring some 52 feet (16 meters) in length with a body mass of 67.86 tons—able to execute bursts of high speed to ...

Megalodon dispatched its prey with a ferocious bite and lethal, serrated teeth that could reach up to 7 inches (18 centimeters) long — the size of a human hand.

Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists previously thought, according to a new study.