Otodus megalodon was a gigantic shark that went extinct around 3.6 Mya. It could grow to the enormous size of at least 15 m long, making it one of the largest apex marine predators since the Mesozoic.

WASHINGTON, June 27 (Reuters) - The megalodon, a huge shark that was the scourge of the ancient oceans and is a star in modern movie theaters, is named for its "large tooth" - and for good reason. Its ...

THE prehistoric “super carnivore” megalodon was bigger than previously thought, growing to a whopping 80ft and weighing 94 tons. The beast would have been four times bigger than the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roaming the ancient seas eons ago, the megalodon shark eviscerated its prey with jaws that were 10 feet wide. Warpaintcobra/iStock ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. an illustration of a megalodon just beneath the surface of th water looking up with its mouth open an illustration of a megalodon ...

Megalodon (scientific name: Carcharocles megalodon) is a member of the extinct species of megatooth shark (scientific name: Otodontidae) that went extinct around 3.6 million years ago. Megalodon, ...

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 ...

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 in ...

Megalodon. An ancient creature that still strikes terror into many people’s hearts, even though it disappeared from our ocean millions of years ago. Scientist Jack ...

There are fears a mammoth 18-metre shark is still lurking within the deep. With the Megalodon existing approximately 3.6 million years ago, there has been a long-believed conspiracy that in fact the ...

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 ...