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

The ocean’s ultimate predator once hunted whales with ease. Here’s why the world’s biggest shark eventually vanished off the ...

Fossils reveal that giant predatory sharks existed 15 million years before megalodon and were already top predators in Cretaceous seas.

According to a paper published earlier this year in Communications Biology, a massive shark that exceeded the size of ...

The most deadly predator of the sea spent its day conquering and terrorizing every creature in sight. This is the megalodon. It lived millions of years ago, but let's assume this monster shark was ...

A illustration made in Sept. 3, 2025, of a gigantic 8 meter (26 foot) long mega-predatory lamniform shark swimming beside a long-necked plesiosaur in the seas off Australia 115 million years ago.

Megalodon, the terror of the Neogene, dominated its giant shark niche for just 20 million years before it disappeared from the world's oceans. And, during that time ...

The mighty megalodon remains the most iconic extinct shark in history, remembered for its gigantic jaws and awe-inspiring bulk. Because its body was made mostly of cartilage, only its enormous teeth ...

Megalodon tends to dominate conversations about prehistoric ocean predators. Its massive jaws and oversized teeth have turned it into a pop-culture icon that feels almost mythical. Yet during the ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — 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 ...