A newly described fossil from northern Australia reveals an 8 meter mega-shark that hunted in the age of dinosaurs, long ...

The ocean’s ultimate predator once hunted whales with ease. Here’s why the world’s biggest shark eventually vanished off the ...

Fossils reveal that giant predatory sharks existed 15 million years before megalodon and were already top predators in Cretaceous seas.

There is no mistaking the 15 cm (6 in) teeth of the largest apex predator, the megalodon. Getting bitten by this beast would ...

According to a paper published earlier this year in Communications Biology, a massive shark that exceeded the size of ...

A illustration made in Sept. 3, 2025, of a gigantic 8 meter (26 foot) long mega-predatory lamniform shark swimming beside a long-necked plesiosaur in the seas off Australia 115 million years ago.

Roaming the ancient seas eons ago, the megalodon shark eviscerated its prey with jaws that were 10 feet wide. Warpaintcobra/iStock via Getty Images Plus Imagine traveling back in time and observing ...

A monstrous shark, predating whales, great whites, or even the bus-sized megalodon, once prowled the waters off what is now northern Australia during the Cretaceous period. Researchers, studying huge ...

The mighty megalodon remains the most iconic extinct shark in history, remembered for its gigantic jaws and awe-inspiring bulk. Because its body was made mostly of cartilage, only its enormous teeth ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what's now northern Australia, among the sea ...