A battle between a megalodon and a blue whale sounds thrilling on paper, but in reality, these giants were separated by millions of years, which might be for the best. The megalodon, an enormous shark ...

What scientists understand about the voracious feeding habits of the colossal megalodon could be up for some revision. The prehistoric predator that went extinct about 3.6 million years ago was not ...

Faster than any shark alive today and big enough to eat an orca in just five bites: A new study suggests the extinct shark known as a megalodon was an even more impressive superpredator than ...

A new study shows the Megalodon, a gigantic shark that went extinct 3.6 million years ago, was more slender than earlier studies suggested. This finding changes scientists’ understanding of Megalodon ...

While movie megalodon is heightened for entertainment, the real thing was still huge. Megalodon was a white or mackerel shark, related to today’s great white shark. Some believe the whale shark is ...

The Meg was shaped more like a whale than the giant great white shark in the Jason Statham movies, suggests new research. Megalodon, the prehistoric ocean hunter, was a "longer, sleeker super predator ...

Orcas in the Gulf of California off the coast of Mexico have been spotted hunting young great white sharks by flipping them ...

Megalodon, the terror of the Neogene, dominated its giant shark niche for just 20 million years before it disappeared from the world's oceans. And, during that time ...

The megalodon is a prehistoric ancestor of the modern-day shark, and just like it preceded the shark, National Megalodon Day precedes Shark Week. National Megalodon Day is June 15. The Discovery ...