Precisely when the last megalodon died is not known, but new evidence suggests that it was at least 3.6 million years ago. Scientists think that up to a third of all large marine animals, including 43 ...

Megalodon, the ancient shark often depicted as a super-sized great white, was in fact a rather different beast, according to ...

A new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica ... "The remarkably simple evidence that O. megalodon had a more slender body than the great white shark was hidden in plain sight," said ...

This may have been a factor in the demise of the megalodon alongside climate change and other environmental pressures, the scientists said. "This is a piece in the puzzle of evidence that there ...

The megalodon lived in most parts of the ocean (except near the north and south pole). The most northern fossils are found off the coast of Denmark and the most southern in New Zealand.