Meet The Shark Bigger Than A School Bus — A Biologist Explains Why It Vanished From The Oceans

The ocean’s ultimate predator once hunted whales with ease. Here’s why the world’s biggest shark eventually vanished off the ...
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15 Million Years before the Megalodon, This Giant Ancient Shark Prowled the Oceans

A humungous shark that lived 115 million years ago surpassed the size of modern-day great whites, paleontologists discovered ...
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Before megalodon, this monstrous shark terrorized the waters of northern Australia

The ocean depths are full of mysteries and monsters. But some of its greatest secrets and behemoths lie not beneath the waves ...
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An 8-meter shark fossil predates megalodon and rewrites the timeline

A newly described fossil from northern Australia reveals an 8 meter mega-shark that hunted in the age of dinosaurs, long ...

Megalodons may have grown to the size of school buses by eating their shark siblings in the womb, new research suggests

Megalodons were the biggest sharks on the planet. Recent studies show how these apex predators reached lengths of 50 feet with heads the size of cars.
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Before megalodon, researchers say a monstrous shark ruled ancient Australian seas

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what’s now northern Australia, among the sea ...

Monstrous shark ruled ancient Australian seas before megalodon, researchers say

The ancestor of today’s great white shark was thought to be about eight metres long, the authors of a paper published in Communications Biology said.