When you hear "megalodon," what comes to mind? If the answer is a gigantic version of a great white shark, the latest revelation in megalodon research might make you reconsider. A recent find by ...

The battle for diminishing stocks of whales and other prey may have pushed the megalodon to extinction three million years ago. Environmental pressures, such as sea level changes, also played a role.

The mighty megalodon keeps its crown as one of the largest sharks to have ever lived. It was an apex predator of prehistory, reigning the seas and raining teeth on ocean floors, until its ultimate ...

Until now, only the length of the Otodus Megalodon, as featured in the 2018 film The Meg, had been estimated from fossils of its teeth. However a team from Swansea and Bristol universities have ...

The ocean’s most formidable cold-hearted killer, the long-extinct giant megalodon shark, may have been warm-blooded – which could have caused its disappearance more than three million years ago.

Scientists have used fossil evidence to understand better the lives of ancient megalodon sharks, which they have found could have consumed a killer whale-sized meal in just five bites. The 3D ...