Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins, whales and large sea cows roamed the world’s oceans, topping the underwater food chain. Yet back then, any one of these creatures ...

Scientists have discovered that the long-extinct megalodon, also known as the megatooth shark, had a body temperature 7 degrees Celsius warmer than the surrounding seawater. This information might ...

These were then looked at in comparison to 170 species of living and extinct sharks, helping to work out head and tail fin sizes. Research from 2022 suggests that megalodon’s size may have been ...

"In addition to finding fossilized teeth from tiger [sharks], makos, and great whites, you could uncover the most sought-after Paleo prize—the tooth of an extinct megalodon. The chompers of ...

But that’s not true. Megalodons are extinct. They died out about 3.5 million years ago. And scientists know this because, ...

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 ...

Megalodon may have had a long, sleek body Shimada and his team compared 145 species of living sharks and 20 species of extinct sharks and built a database of the proportions of their heads ...

These were then looked at in comparison to 170 species of living and extinct sharks, helping to work out head and tail fin sizes. Research from 2022 suggests that megalodon’s size may have been ...