Carcharocles megalodon could reach up to 60 feet in length and had jaws measuring 9 feet wide. It lived from 23 million years ago up until the end of the Pliocene Epoch, around 2.6 million years ago.

The megalodon, which went extinct millions of years ago, was the largest shark ever documented and one of the largest fish on record. The scientific name, Carcharocles megalodon, means "giant tooth." ...

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The sharks we know today pale in comparison to Carcharocles megalodon. Reaching up to 50 feet long — five times larger than a great white shark — megalodon left behind teeth as big as a human hand ...

Aim: Given its catastrophic consequences, the extinction of apex predators has long been of interest to modern ecology. Despite major declines, no presentday species of marine apex predator has yet ...

We just can’t let Carcharocles megalodon rest. From Peter Benchley’s JAWS to the dreck that regularly bobs up to the surface of basic cable “science” channels, we can’t seem to resist invoking the ...

Florida archaeologists recently discovered several complete skeletons of an extinct species of elephants called gomphothere, marking a historic find at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s ...

Megalodon was a monster of the seas and had the choice of anything it wanted to eat, so what was on the menu for the now-extinct shark 7 million-years-ago? Research in the journal Palaeogeography, ...