For centuries scientists have imagined megalodon as an oversized great white shark. But would another shark provide a better picture?

Yet back then, any one of these creatures could become prey to the ocean's fiercest apex predator: the megalodon, a giant shark with massive teeth and a body the size of a whale. In many ways ...

Others even include the tips of teeth broken off in the bone during a feeding frenzy that occurred millions of years ago. A megalodon tooth next to a tooth of a great white shark. The largest ...

Scientists have discovered that the long-extinct megalodon, also known as the megatooth shark, had a body temperature ... in the megalodon’s fossil teeth called apatite. A tooth’s isotopic ...

Researchers have previously found fossilized whale skeletons with megalodon teeth embedded within them. While scientists are not sure if this means that the ancient shark actually did prey on ...

Turns out, the palm-sized tooth belonged to an animal that died at least 3.5 million years ago: an Otodus megalodon shark ... is from the left side an upper jaw, Godfrey also said, adding ...

This is now believed to be incorrect. O. megalodon likely had a much shorter nose, or rostrum, when compared with the great white, with a flatter, almost squashed jaw. Like the blue shark, it also had ...