15:15, Thu, Jul 9, 2020 Updated: 15:15, Thu, Jul 9, 2020 The Carcharocles megalodon, better known as the megalodon, was the world's biggest-ever shark, whose name means big tooth. The prehistoric ...

A PREHISTORIC Megalodon shark has been declared the world’s ‘ultimate predator of predators’ by scientists. In a new study, researchers from Princeton University ranked predators from the past and ...

A mysterious species of shark that lived 20 million years ago and was 12 feet (3.6 metres) long has managed to escape anyone's notice - until now. Scientists discovered fossils belonging to the ...

Ben Evans with the huge shark tooth found in Essex, believed to be from the megalodon. Credit: Jason Evans / JJ Giraldo A 13-year-old boy has found a shark tooth belonging to a super-predator that was ...

The fearsome megalodon was even bigger than we thought, according to a new study – but possibly less ferocious, which may have led to its demise. Few fossils of the monster predator have been found, ...

A monstrous shark, predating whales, great whites, or even the bus-sized megalodon, once prowled the waters off what is now ...

A baleen whale was lunch for a giant shark — possibly a megalodon — some 12–15 million years ago, bite marks on a fossilised flipper bone have revealed. Perhaps fortunately for the whale, it was most ...

08:35, Tue, Jan 23, 2024 Updated: 08:48, Tue, Jan 23, 2024 The giant megalodon shark, thought to dominate the oceans of the world millions of years ago, was much smaller than first thought. New ...

A prehistoric food fight may have spelled the end for the megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived. A study of the ocean giant's fossil teeth suggests it had to compete for food with another ...

The length of this humongous shark was a whopping 16 metres and possibly as much as 20 metres. It has been recreated in the video above using the most up-to-date modern science. That's way bigger than ...

A diver was stunned when he spotted a massive shark tooth believed to belong to the infamous Megalodon - a shark which weighed the same as 30 great whites. Dylan Belson “screamed underwater” when he ...

Comparison of a megalodon tooth and a great white shark tooth, not associated with the study.Image Credit: Mark_Kostich/Shutterstock Megalodon teeth have always been ...