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

The giant extinct shark species known as the megalodon ... "We are only talking about the main part of the body." The team also found that a 24.3-meter-long megalodon would have weighed 94 tons ...

Sharks worldwide are imperiled by overfishing. Yet experts disagree on whether policies in Florida and the U.S. aimed at protecting sharks have in fact done the opposite. In Part I of this three-part ...

The now-extinct megalodon shark may have been ... developed a revised tentative body outline of a 80 foot megalodon (credit: DePaul University/Kenshu Shimada) Part of the research involved ...

In order to estimate the shark's entire body length, Shimada collaborated with colleagues in Australia, Austria, Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the UK and the US, obtaining head ...

Past studies have estimated the megalodon’s length and body shape by comparing it to the great white shark, which has similar large, serrated teeth. But Sternes said those studies relied on ...

By comparing them to the body plans of 170 other shark species, both living and extinct ... as many scientists believe competition with whites is part of what lead to the megalodon’s eventual ...

The debate remains unresolved in part due to sharks lacking bones ... “Our research team found that the modern great white shark with a rather stout body hypothetically blown up to the size ...

As a shark, megalodon is part of the family of cartilaginous fishes ... concluded that the two sharks had a similar stout body shape. Shimada followed this hypothesis when he published a ...