The megalodon (Otodus megalodon ... But let us introduce you to the terrifying Deinosuchus (Deinosuchus riograndensis), among the largest crocodiles on record. Reaching up to 50 feet long and ...

Carcharocles (Carcharodon) megalodon. Image by Gunnar Ries Amphibol, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Throughout history, Earth has been home to a plethora of extraordinary creatures. While today ...

Carcharocles (Carcharodon) mégalodon. Image de Gunnar Ries Amphibol, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Throughout history, Earth has been home to a plethora of extraordinary creatures. While today ...

More there’s something about Megalodon that grips the imagination like no other. Fossilized shark teeth are some of the most abundant remnants of prehistoric oceans, providing scientists with ...

But not all paleontologists agree. This illustration of megalodon may be wrong. The ancient predatory shark went extinct around 3.6 million years ago and has been compared to modern great white ...

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 ...

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If you picture a megalodon, chances are you envision what amounts to a gigantic great white shark. The image is understandable, given almost every depiction of the ancient apex predators across ...

For example, a 24.3-meter-long O. megalodon would have weighed around 94 tons, and the cruising speed estimated from scale morphology was 2.1–3.5 kilometers (1.3–2.2 miles) per hour, which is ...

The research, published Sunday in the journal “Palaeontologia Electronica,” suggests that the megalodon, which dominated the ocean 3.5 million years ago, was more than three times the size of ...