While movie megalodon is heightened for entertainment, the real thing was still huge. Megalodon was a white or mackerel shark, related to today’s great white shark. Some believe the whale shark is ...

Paleobiologist Dr. Kenshu Shimada has been fascinated by fossil sharks, including the giant Otodus megalodon, since childhood — he found his first megalodon tooth at 13 years old. So when he saw the ...

LAS VEGAS - SEPTEMBER 30: One of the world's largest set of shark jaws comprised of about 180 fossil teeth from the prehistoric species, Carcharocles megalodon, which grew to the size of a school bus, ...

Twenty million years ago, the Megalodon was king of the oceans. The largest shark that ever lived. It ate other mega sharks for breakfast. But as an ice age engulfed the world, this enormous sea giant ...

Was the Megalodon shark actually as massive and monstrous as it has looked in sci-fi movies? A new study has found that the Megalodon shark was actually not like a gigantic great white shark. The ...

A mysterious underwater noise recorded in 1997, the “Bloop,” fuelled years of speculation about megalodon and other undiscovered giants. But NOAA’s long-running investigation eventually traced the ...

The Discovery Channel has been in deep chum all week over opening their annual Shark Week with a special called Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives. Those looking to tune in to see an exploration of ...

Megalodon lived. Past tense. The largest shark ever, and arguably the largest predator, went extinct 2.6 million or more years ago. And it has stayed that way. But Hollywood sequel makers will be ...

The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago, and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth. But the megalodon may not have been as big as once thought, some researchers suggest.

The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth — until now. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on January 23m 2023.) The ...