The megalodon was thought to look like a supersized great white shark, but a new study suggests otherwise. Using a great ...
Chemical clues in the teeth of living sharks and 13 fossil megalodon teeth suggest the great white shark and the megalodon once had similar positions in the food web and may have competed for the ...
Megalodon, the ancient shark often depicted as a super-sized great white, was in fact a rather different beast, according to a new analysis of fossil evidence. The fearsome predator was longer ...
As one of the largest predators to have ever lived, megalodon captures people's imagination - and for good reason. But was this apex predator simply a beefed-up great white shark, and is it still ...
Swansea University The project was supervised by shark expert Dr Catalina Pimiento of Swansea University Results suggest a 16m (52ft) megalodon - almost three times as long as a great white shark ...
“Because megalodon went extinct around the time ... the vulnerability of large marine apex predators, such as the great white shark, to stressors such as climate change,” adds Griffiths.
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the ocean, climate change, and the future of our planet. For example, our knowledge of Megalodon's existence comes from the ...
Just in time for summer, the megalodon—the ancient, city bus-sized shark known as the “Megatooth”—has reared its ravenous snout. While the oceans are now safe from the Megatooth, which went extinct an ...
A decrease in the giant shark’s prey, combined with the rise of competing smaller species like great white sharks, meant that megalodon “suddenly found itself backed into an evolutionary ...
The black and white photo shows a group of people gathered around a ship with a huge shark hanging from a pulley. Misinformation claiming megalodon sharks are still alive today has proliferated ...
In fact, a T-rex would have been a quick snack for megalodon. Its head would have easily fit inside the gargantuan shark's mouth.
As one of the largest predators to have ever lived, megalodon captures people's imagination - and for good reason. But was this apex predator simply a beefed-up great white shark, and is it still ...