Researchers in the U.K. have revealed the true size of the megalodon, the prehistoric giant shark of Hollywood fame. Experts from the University of Bristol and Swansea University have shed new light ...

Compared to the megalodon, a shark which was the dominant marine predator until vanishing 2 million years ago, the great white shark, which terrorized beach-goers in the movie "Jaws," was a guppie.

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Megalodon was a true monster shark – with one tooth the size of your hand and a body so big it would make a great white shark look like a tuna. Fortunately for those who like to swim in the ocean, ...

The megalodon—the biggest shark to have ever lived—may not looked like an overgrown great white shark, as it is often portrayed, scientists have said. Commonly known as the megalodon, this species of ...

A giant megalodon shark may have broken a whale's back in a vicious attack around 15 million years ago, according to a study. The paper, published in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica, documents ...

A Florida family made the find of a lifetime when they unearthed a 6.5-inch megalodon tooth near Charleston, South Carolina, earlier this month. Paul Columbia and his family of four from Largo, ...

We asked our friends at the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville to spotlight something fascinating about our state. Here's a mouthful! This big fella – the largest predatory shark of ...

July 14 -- At a length of 70 feet, armed with razor-sharp 7-inch teeth and with the strongest bite force of any known animal to ever roam or swim the Earth, the megalodon was no joke. With ...

Jacob Danner has searched a Florida beach for washed-up items almost every sunrise for the past year. But three weeks ago, Danner, an art curator, found his first megalodon tooth - 3 inches long, and ...

“It makes you want to spend your whole day hunting, thinking that more must be out there,” said Danner, who found both teeth at Fernandina Beach. Megalodon teeth are prized items for amateur ...