Shark biologist Dr Phillip Sternes, of University of California, Riverside (UCR), said: ‘This study provides the most robust ...

The tip of a megalodon tooth is preserved in this fossil whale rib bone. Most reconstructions show megalodon looking like an enormous great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias. This is now believed to ...

Until recently, estimates have suggested megalodon grew to between 15 and 18 metres in length, three times longer than the largest recorded great white shark. It may have been comparable in length to ...

The length of this humongous shark ... whale. Its stomach may have held 10,000 litres, that's enough for it to have eaten 20 whole cows...if cows swam in the sea. How big are the megalodon's ...

The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong. The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body—closer in ...

it has emerged that the megalodon may have had a slim body shape like a lemon shark, rather than a stocky body shape like a great white shark. 'Giant primeval sharks such as whale sharks and ...

A new study suggests the extinct megalodon shark species was larger than previously believed, with a potential length of up to 24 metres and weight of 94 tonnes. (Graham Thompson/CBC) A Saint John ...