A barnacle-covered tooth found off the North Carolina coast counts as one of the largest megalodon shark teeth ever ...

For decades, the giant ancient shark Otodus megalodon has loomed in our imaginations as a horror of the ancient seas — an enormous, meat-seeking missile evolved to annihilate whales and nothing less.

For decades, Megalodon was imagined as nothing more than an oversized great white shark. A new international study has ...

A set of giant Megalodon vertebrae that vanished for decades has been rediscovered in Denmark, confirming that this prehistoric shark may have reached at least 79 feet in length.

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 ...

The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago, and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth. But the megalodon may not have been as big as once thought, some researchers suggest.

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A giant shark vertebra missing since 1989 is rediscovered in storage after being mistaken for junk, confirming the ancient beast’s massive size.

Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins, whales and large sea cows roamed the world’s oceans, topping the underwater food chain. Yet back then, any one of these creatures could ...

A museum curator gives a sense of scale to the reconstructed jaws of the fossil shark Otodus megalodon. Rick Meyer / Contributor via Getty Images In the more than 400 million years that sharks have ...

Since Steven Spielberg's “Jaws” in 1975, sharks have boasted a serious pop culture bite. But when it comes to dealing with a trendier toothy menace ... well, we’re going to need a bigger boat. The ...