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

The megalodon was thought to look like a supersized great white shark, but a new study suggests otherwise. Using a great white to "reconstruct the body form of Megalodon lacks empirical fossil support ...

Fossilized remains of acolossal shark discovered in northern Australia have upended scientists’ understanding of when oceanic ...

Paleobiologist Dr. Kenshu Shimada has been fascinated by fossil sharks, including the giant Otodus megalodon, since childhood — he found his first megalodon tooth at 13 years old. So when he saw the ...

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

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

A Florida family made the find of a lifetime when they unearthed a 6.5-inch megalodon tooth near Charleston, South Carolina, earlier this month. Paul Columbia and his family of four from Largo, ...

Ask any marine enthusiast about the most terrifying ocean predator of all time, and they won’t talk about a great white shark. Instead, they’ll probably name the great white’s ancient competitor, ...