A mysterious underwater noise recorded in 1997, the “Bloop,” fuelled years of speculation about megalodon and other ...

Roaming the ancient seas eons ago, the megalodon shark eviscerated its prey with jaws that were 10 feet wide. Warpaintcobra/iStock via Getty Images Plus Imagine traveling back in time and observing ...

Megalodon, the biggest shark to have ever lived, may not have looked like an uber great white shark as is generally assumed — but instead may have been longer and thinner, scientists have revealed.

A noise that sounded off the coast of Florida in 1997 baffled scientists for years until they sent some cutting -edge ...

Otodus megalodon was the largest predatory fish in Earth's history. Measuring up to 24 meters, it was longer than a truck with a trailer and weighed almost twice as much. Embedded in its jaws were ...

The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago, and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth. But there's debate over what it looked like. Most scientists have described it as a ...

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Fossils have a way of captivating everyone, no matter their profession or the species unearthed, but there’s something about Megalodon that grips the imagination like no other. Fossilized shark teeth ...

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 ...

The megalodon, a giant shark that went extinct some 3.6 million years ago, is famous for its utterly enormous jaws and correspondingly huge teeth. Recent studies have proposed that the megalodon was a ...

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 ...

A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists agree. This illustration of megalodon may be wrong. The ancient predatory ...