Famously, the Megalodon was the biggest shark in the world, and one of the most powerful predators to have ever lived. Formally called Otodus megalodon, it is commonly portrayed as a gigantic, ...

A monstrous shark, predating whales, great whites, or even the bus-sized megalodon, once prowled the waters off what is now northern Australia during the Cretaceous period. Researchers, studying huge ...

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 ...

The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong. The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body -- closer ...

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 ...

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 ...