The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong. The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body -- closer ...
A Gulf Coast woman joined an exclusive marine-paleontology club last week when she discovered the tooth of a megalodon, the gargantuan ancestor of modern sharks that vanished from the world's oceans ...
Shark biologists now say a lemon shark, like this one, is a better model of the extinct megalodon's body than the great white shark. The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white ...