Otodus megalodon was the largest predatory fish in Earth's history. Measuring up to 24 meters, it was longer than a truck ...

For decades, the giant ancient shark Otodus megalodon has loomed in our imaginations as a horror of the ancient seas — an ...

Megalodon was the largest predator in the oceans for about 20 million years before it went extinct, and that only happened ...

Zinc levels show the giant shark ate more creatures than expected, challenging long-held assumptions about its behavior.

Yet back then, any one of these creatures could become prey to the ocean's fiercest apex predator: the megalodon, a giant shark with massive teeth and a body the size of a whale. In many ways ...

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 ...

The infamous beast, The Meg, that terrorised divers in the blockbuster film of the same name was closer to a whale ... compared the megalodon to a great white shark (Credits: Getty Images ...

is the whale shark, a sedate filter feeder. As recently as 4 million years ago, however, sharks of that scale likely included the fast-moving predator megalodon (formally Otodus megalodon).

But scientists now think the enormous creature looked "closer in shape to a lemon shark or even a large whale". The usual way to guess at the size of a megalodon is by taking tooth measurements ...

A recent diving trip off the coast of Florida resulted in an ancient discovery. Kristina Scott found a 6-inch megalodon shark tooth while fossil diving in Venice. She said she’s been fossil diving for ...

VENICE, Fla. (CBS12) — A Florida woman found a six-inch-long fossilized megalodon tooth while scuba diving off Florida's Gulf ...

Megalodon shark jaws and teeth at the American Museum ... as well as hydrodynamic models of how creatures like whale sharks (Rhincodon typus), basking sharks (Cetorhinus Maximus), and whales ...