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In the new study, however, researchers examined megalodon fossils and compared them to over 150 living and extinct shark species to try to build an image of the size of the giant shark.

Scientists have hypothesised that the megalodon resembled modern great white sharks due to the enormous size of its serrated teeth, CNN reported. Megalodon (Odontus megalodon) is one of the most ...

That would mean the largest megalodons may have been nearly the size of a blue whale. “Our new value represents the most reasonable maximum possible estimated [total length] for megalodon based ...

Shimada followed this hypothesis when he published a paper in September 2019, arguing that the maximum size for megalodon was “just” 50 feet (15.3 meters) long. However, several years ago ...

MEGALODON may have grown to a staggering 80 feet in length – and weighted 94 tons. The staggering size of the prehistoric killing machine has been revealed in a study that reveals what the ocean ...

The infamous beast, The Meg, that terrorised divers in the blockbuster film of the same name was closer to a whale, research suggests. Experts have said the prehistoric predator the Megaladon was ...

The research, published Sunday in the journal “Palaeontologia Electronica,” suggests that the megalodon, which dominated the ocean 3.5 million years ago, was more than three times the size of ...

“What sets our study apart from all previous papers on body size and shape estimates of O. megalodon is the use of a completely new approach that does not rely solely on the modern great white ...

So there has been considerable debate among paleobiologists about megalodon's size, body shape, and swimming speed, among other characteristics. While some researchers have compared megalodon to a ...