MEGALODON may have grown to a staggering 80 feet in length – and weighted 94 tons. The staggering size of the prehistoric ...

The giant extinct shark species known as the megalodon has captured the interest of scientists and the general public alike, ...

A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists ...

Last Saturday, a fisherman accidentally hooked an 8-foot lemon shark, a species that is not ... The gator — a baby — was spotted in clear shallow water. Mary Frances Barnes Rodriguez caught ...

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 ...

Lemon sharks are viviparous, in that they give birth to live young, so when a pup is born it is already a fully formed miniature shark. The mother will risk stranding herself in shallow waters to ...

In terms of today’s shark parallels, think less “mako” and more “lemon.” Megalodons may have resembled sleeker lemon sharks than great whites. Credit: Deposit Photos Rob de Vries The ...

The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong. The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body—closer in ...