Nothing strikes fear in the hearts of humans like a shark fin in shallow water. They are often portrayed as silent killers, ...

Prior estimates hypothesized that the giant shark could have stretched up to 65 ... those sums to the existing fossilized record of the trunk to get the full body length. “Our research team ...

Neither shark backbone specimens were found with the ... and if we assume that that’s the complete trunk length, then why can’t we estimate the head length and a tail length based on modern ...

Part of the research involved comparing sections of the megalodon's trunk with the trunks of 145 modern and 20 extinct shark ...

Because the Belgian trunk vertebral specimen measures 11 meters ... megalodon likely superficially resembled the modern lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris), which has a more slender body than ...

"Our new study does not use the modern great white shark as a model, but rather simply asks, 'How long were the head and tail based on the trunk [length] represented by the fossil vertebral column?' ...

The biggest, most formidable shark to have ever roamed the ocean may have been even larger than previously thought, according to a new study. The research, published Sunday in the journal “ ...