Megalodon, a giant prehistoric shark, ruled the oceans millions of years ago. The conventional view of megalodon as simply a larger version of the great white is now being challenged as new ...

A new study has found that the Megalodon shark was actually not like a gigantic great white shark. The prehistoric megatooth shark was a more slender shark than previous studies have suggested.

Megalodon have always been compared to the modern great white shark. Scientists have found a reason why it shouldn't be.

The infamous predator is often depicted as a larger, more fearsome version of the great white shark—however it seems this is not so accurate.

O. megalodon, my megalodon. The gargantuan shark that prowled the Miocene seas has long captured the imagination because of its stupendous 60-foot length—three times the size of the largest ...

Extinct megalodon shark was even bigger than previously thought New research reignites debate over the size of this extinct giant, also suggesting it looked unlike a great white ...

A new scientific study shows that the prehistoric gigantic shark, Megalodon or megatooth shark, which lived roughly 15-3.6 million years ago nearly worldwide, was a more slender shark than ...

The largest shark discovered to date — the monstrous Otodus megalodon — may have been a sleek, long-bodied leviathan. A fresh look at the extinct predator’s fossilized remains suggests its ...

A family's vacation turned into a real treasure hunt after they excavated a monster-sized megalodon shark tooth in South Carolina. Paul Columbia and his sons were in Summerville when they ...

The massive Megalodon had a staggering 100,000 kilocalories-per-day nutritional demand—which it didn't always fill as expected.

Shark tooth hunters unanimously agree that finding a megalodon tooth—or a “meg,” as Harkin calls it—is the ultimate goal. At Relic Reef, the megalodon finds have been plentiful.