The mighty megalodon is the most famous extinct shark on earth – with giant jaws and a tremendous size that inspire myths and ...

Megalodons have been portrayed as gigantic great whites, but new research suggests they were more svelte and less agile ...

The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago, and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth. But there's debate over what it looked like.

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Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists previously thought, according to a new study. CNN values your feedback 1.

Megalodon from prehistoric times scene 3D illustration, though the ancient shark probably didn't look like this. (Warpaintcobra / Getty Images) ...

Cooper concluded that a megalodon would have been a stocky, powerful shark—measuring some 52 feet (16 meters) in length with a body mass of 67.86 tons—able to execute bursts of high speed to ...

Maybe megalodon wasn’t so chonky after all. A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists agree.

After comparing portions of a megalodon’s vertebral column to over 100 species of living and extinct shark species, researchers now estimate the megalodon may have topped out at around 80-feet ...

Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists previously thought, according to a new study. CNN values your feedback 1.