The now-extinct megalodon shark may have been larger than first believed, reaching lengths of 80 feet (24.3 meters), according to a new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica last week. This is ...

New research suggests that the prehistoric megalodon, the biggest shark known to have existed, was even larger than we thought.

Everyone's favorite prehistoric shark may have been much sleeker and much larger than previously thought. A new study suggests that the megalodon wasn't as stocky as the great white shark ...

What’s more, he and his coauthors posit that megalodon was slenderer than previously ... such as a lemon shark. In this discovery, Shimada said, his team also stumbled upon a larger pattern ...

What’s more, he and his coauthors posit that megalodon was slenderer than previously thought ... such as a lemon shark. In this discovery, Shimada said, his team also stumbled upon a larger pattern in ...

Because even larger megalodon vertebrae have been discovered ... that the megalodon more closely resembled the lemon shark than the great white also includes whales, and it would have been helpful ...

“Rather than resembling an oversized great white shark ... t just about getting bigger—it’s about evolving the right body to survive at that scale.” The megalodon may have been one ...

The biggest, most formidable shark to have ever roamed the ocean may have been even larger ... that the megalodon, which dominated the ocean 3.5 million years ago, was more than three times ...

But they're not capable of becoming gigantic, and don't grow larger than 23 feet because ... size of an adult great white shark. "It is entirely possible that megalodon pups were already taking ...