Carcharocles (Carcharodon) megalodon. Gunnar Ries Amphibol, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Imagine a creature so immense and powerful that it dominated the oceans for millions of years. The ...

The Megalodon, or Carcharocles megalodon, was a ginormous shark that dominated the seas approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago. As the largest shark species known to have existed, they could reach ...

there’s something about Megalodon that grips the imagination like no other. Fossilized shark teeth are some of the most abundant remnants of prehistoric oceans, providing scientists with crucial ...

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 ...

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If you picture a megalodon, chances are you envision what amounts to a gigantic great white shark. The image is understandable, given almost every depiction of the ancient apex predators across ...

Fossilized teeth of an ancient mega-shark has led us to understand Megalodon behavior a lot better. Here's what scientists have learned.

Shark biologists now say a lemon shark, like this one, is a better model of the extinct megalodon's body than the great white shark. The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white ...

The ocean is a place of mystery and wonder, filled with creatures both majestic and terrifying. While the Great White Shark ...