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

“Our research team found that the modern great white shark with a rather stout body hypothetically blown up to the size of megalodon would not allow it to be an efficient swimmer due to ...

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The new study compared megalodon fossils with more than 150 living and extinct shark species. It found the megalodon may have had a longer, more slender body resembling that of the modern lemon ...

The study also found that the live offspring of the megalodon may have been 12 to 13 feet (3.6 to 3.9 m) long. The teeth of megalodon sharks are similar to that of modern-day great white sharks ...

The giant extinct shark species known as ... and no complete skeleton has yet been found. So there has been considerable debate among paleobiologists about megalodon's size, body shape, and ...

It's often thought that the megalodon would've looked a lot like a great white shark, but bigger. But scientists now think the enormous creature looked "closer in shape to a lemon shark or even a ...

combined with the rise of competing smaller species like great white sharks, meant that megalodon “suddenly found itself backed into an evolutionary corner”. “Any suggestion that megalodon ...

The infamous beast, The Meg, that terrorised divers in the blockbuster film of the same name was closer to a whale, research suggests. Experts have said the prehistoric predator the Megaladon was ...