Megalodon’s favorite prey – small whales – vanished and it had to compete with other hunters such as the predatory sperm whale Livyatan and modern great white sharks. By 3.6 million years ...

Estimates suggest megalodon actually grew to between 15 and 18 metres in length, three times longer than the largest recorded great white shark. It may have been comparable in length to today's ...

Scientists discover massive ancient whale that lived 40 million years ... modern apex predators [the great white and mako sharks], which makes megalodon unique,” said geochemist and ...

megalodon was elongated relative to the great white shark, this new finding marks a ... "If I only have to eat one whale every so often, whale populations would remain more stable over time." ...

Megalodon, the ancient shark often depicted as a super-sized great ... "It wouldn't be hovering over the sea floor waiting for a whale to move above it and then slamming into it from below ...

Otodus megalodon had made its entrance. This mature female shark could have weighed nearly 60 tonnes, so the much smaller whale had no way to escape her jaws – nearly 2 metres wide and lined ...

It's bigger than the biggest whale shark, which is the largest ... They're big, they're hard and, like a modern shark, the megalodon would have lost and then replaced them tens of thousands ...

During recent construction work at a Los Angeles high school, millions of fossils were unearthed, many of which were marine ...

The largest shark to ever live on Earth, megalodon terrorised the world’s oceans, and could eat a killer whale in just a few bites. Megalodon, the world’s largest known shark species ...

Estimates suggest megalodon actually grew to between 15 and 18 metres in length, three times longer than the largest recorded great white shark. It may have been comparable in length to today's ...