Everyone's favorite prehistoric shark may have been much sleeker and much larger than previously thought. A new study ...

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

A new study provides many new insights into the biology of the prehistoric gigantic shark megalodon (megatooth shark), which ...

New research reignites debate over the size of this extinct giant, also suggesting it looked unlike a great white ...

A new study into the mighty Megalodon has found intriguing evidence to answer some of the biggest questions about these ...

Researchers refined their size estimates of the prehistoric shark by studying the bodily proportions of 165 other shark ...

As for body shape, taking the new length estimates ... "Living gigantic sharks, such as the whale shark and basking shark, as well as many other gigantic aquatic vertebrates like whales have ...

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Analysis of chemicals of fossilised teeth suggests that the giant shark’s body temperature was about ... platform of a massive shark, probably a basking shark, circling a cruise ship in the ...

The basking shark’s scientific name, Cetorhinus maximus, roughly translates to “great-nosed sea monster” in Greek. In reality, these placid sharks, found the world over, are totally harmless.

One of those sharks unfortunately washed up dead on a Cape beach earlier this week, as researchers responded to Wellfleet Harbor and took samples from the massive 6,000-pound basking shark.