Megalodon sharks went extinct 3.5 million years ago but some believe they still exist in uncharted parts of the ocean.

and is it still lurking in the dark depths of the ocean? Emma Bernard, who curates the Museum's fossil fish collection (including fossil sharks), helps separate fact from fiction. O. megalodon was not ...

Just in time for summer, the megalodon—the ancient, city bus-sized shark known as the “Megatooth”—has reared its ravenous snout. While the oceans are now safe from the Megatooth, which went extinct an ...

“A mako shark would look puny next to a megalodon,” says Sues. But the fish is still large by human standards; Sues has a set of mako jaws at home and he can easily fit his head in its mout ...

You might imagine a megalodon, one of the largest sharks ever to exist, to look like the gigantic ... it would trump a city bus any day. (Though they still are not bigger than the blue whale ...

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A prehistoric food fight may have spelled the end for the megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived ... in the oceans at the time when both were still alive," said Prof Thomas Tutken of ...

The length of this humongous shark ... or the megalodon? The megalodon had the strongest bite force of any animal that ever lived, three times that of a T-Rex. Is the megalodon still alive?

For the record, it was still a killing machine ... but is significantly warmer than most sharks. Its warmer operating temperature may be what allowed Otodus megalodon to grow so huge, dominant ...

In fact, a T-rex would have been a quick snack for megalodon. Its head would have easily fit inside the gargantuan shark's mouth.

A megalodon's head alone was the size of a car. The prehistoric monster of Hollywood fame was the largest meat-eating shark to ever roam ... female lamniform eggs still hatch inside the mother's ...