What’s more, he and his coauthors posit that megalodon was slenderer than previously thought, closer in build to a sleek lemon shark than a chunky great white, according to the study published ...

Lemon sharks are viviparous, in that they give birth to live young, so when a pup is born it is already a fully formed miniature shark. The mother will risk stranding herself in shallow waters to ...

Shark biologists now say a lemon shark, like this one, is a better model of the extinct megalodon's body than the great white shark. (Image Courtesy of: Albert Kok) We’re gonna need a bigger shark ...

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As for body shape, taking the new length estimates into account, the lemon shark appears to be the closest modern analogue. "However, the exact position and shape of practically all the fins ...