As one of the largest predators to have ever lived, megalodon captures people's imagination - and for good reason. But was this apex predator simply a beefed-up great white shark, and is it still ...

A 52-foot, life-size model of a Carcharocles megalodon shark is now on display in the National Museum of Natural History’s newly opened dining facilities. Erin I. Garcia de Jesus The Smithsonian ...

A prehistoric food fight may have spelled the end for the megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived. A study of the ocean giant's fossil teeth suggests it had to compete for food with another ...

The ocean’s most formidable cold-hearted killer, the long-extinct giant megalodon shark, may have been warm-blooded – which could have caused its disappearance more than three million years ago.

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

The only fossils that remain of the megalodon — the largest known shark ever to exist — are its human-hand-sized teeth. The prehistoric shark, which roamed Earth's oceans for over 20 million ...

Swansea University The project was supervised by shark expert Dr Catalina Pimiento of Swansea University Results suggest a 16m (52ft) megalodon - almost three times as long as a great white shark ...

Scientists have discovered that the long-extinct megalodon, also known as the megatooth shark, had a body temperature 7 degrees Celsius warmer than the surrounding seawater. This information might ...