A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists agree. This illustration of megalodon may be wrong. The ancient ...

It's often thought that the megalodon would've looked a lot like a great white shark, but bigger. But scientists now think the enormous creature looked "closer in shape to a lemon shark or even a ...

Shark Attack 3: Megalodon, a direct-to-video film from 2002, will be streaming on Lionsgate Play. The movie follows lifeguard Ben Carpenter and marine biologist Cataline Stone as they face off ...

An artistic rendering of an Otodus megalodon, not from the study addressed in this article. This interpretation makes megalodon look just like a great white shark, but new research suggests this ...

What’s more, he and his coauthors posit that megalodon was slenderer than previously thought, closer in build to a sleek lemon shark than a chunky great white, according to the study published ...

The study helps confirm the hypothesis that the megalodon was not “merely a gigantic version of the modern-day great white shark,” as previously thought, said Phillip Sternes, an educator at ...

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 ...

The megalodon, this extinct giant of the seas, may not have been the stocky colossus we thought. A new study suggests that this legendary predator had a longer and more slender body, resembling more a ...

The now-extinct megalodon shark may have been larger than first believed, reaching lengths of 80 feet (24.3 meters), according to a new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica last week.