For decades, the megalodon, a terrible shark that ate only whales has been portrayed as the ultimate oceanic horror, its ...

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 ...

Contrary to widespread assumptions, the largest shark that ever lived -- Otodus megalodon -- fed on marine creatures at various levels of the food pyramid and not just the top. Scientists analyzed the ...

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 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 ...

megalodon measuring about 11 meters (36 feet ... The team also noticed that modern-day gigantic sharks, such as the whale shark (Rhincodon typus) and basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Because the megalodon's triangular ... bigger Shimada's team noted that existing gigantic sharks – namely the whale shark and basking shark – have relatively slender bodies, which allow ...