Megalodons are considered the largest sharks, and possibly the largest fish, to have ever roamed Earth’s oceans. They lived over 20 million years ago and were once thought to be related to the great ...

The idea of a battle between a megalodon and a blue whale captures the imagination, though these giants never shared the same oceans. The megalodon, an extinct apex predator, was equipped with ...

Schematic drawing showing the distribution of maximum possible sizes of all known 70 non-planktivorous genera (groups) in the shark order Lamniformes, comprising modern (in gray) and extinct (in black ...

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 ...

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Megalodon and other megatooth sharks may have eaten other predators – and each other – meaning they occupied an unusually high position in the food web. “It is very likely that megatooth sharks were ...