Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists ...

Fossil teeth also help us to understand shark evolution. For example, we know that the extinct giant mako shark, Isurus hastalis, is the ancestor of today’s great white shark. The fossil record ...

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

Along with teeth, the existing fossil record includes parts of giant ... Megalodon’s teeth resemble those of a modern great white shark, so some scientists previously concluded that the two ...

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The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand ... including major sea-level fluctuations and the Great American Biotic Interchange—the migration of ...

Megalodon, the largest shark, was probably slimmer and longer than previously believed, a new study has revealed. Scientists now estimate the massive, extinct sharks might have grown up to 80 feet (24 ...

Scientists have long struggled to determine the size of the megalodon because no complete fossil of ... it to the great white shark, which has similar large, serrated teeth.

When studying P. bizzocoi, the team compared the fossil teeth to the teeth belonging to various living sharks, including great white sharks and mako sharks. Cicimurri said that the team employed this ...

"Our new study does not use the modern great white shark as a model, but rather simply asks, 'How long were the head and tail based on the trunk [length] represented by the fossil vertebral column?' ...

Two great apes — one small ... For instance, some features of the two partial teeth — especially the more complete upper molar — resemble those found on fossil teeth from one branch of ...