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 ...

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 ...

Molly Sampson told her mother that she wanted to find an extinct "meg" fossil while ... died at least 3.5 million years ago: an Otodus megalodon shark. "She told me she was wading in knee-deep ...

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 ...

Baleen whales of that time period were significantly smaller than their descendants, which may have offered them the agility to escape the megalodon. With the shark’s extinction 2.6 million ...

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 ...