Carcharocles megalodon. Today, a life-size model of the now extinct predator hangs from the ceiling above the National Museum of Natural History’s new Ocean Terrace Café. Visitors entering the ...

Fossilised megalodon vertebrae about the size of a dinner plate have also been found ... Precisely when the last megalodon died is not known, but new evidence suggests that it was at least 3.6 million ...

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A handful of high schoolers prompt scientists to develop a new approach for calculating the size of the ancient behemoth. Five years of newspaper journalism convinced Connor Lynch it was time to ...

In the new study, the researchers compared ... need the discovery of at least one complete megalodon skeleton to be more confident about its true size as well as its body form,” said Shimada.

The new research out today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the megalodon’s warm-bloodedness may have contributed to its extinction. “Maintaining an energy ...

Scientists have discovered that the long-extinct megalodon, also known as the megatooth shark, had a body temperature 7 degrees Celsius warmer than the surrounding seawater. This information might ...

The megalodon lived in most parts of the ocean (except near the north and south pole). The most northern fossils are found off the coast of Denmark and the most southern in New Zealand.