Timo Dersch encountered the whales while freediving in the waters surrounding Norway A freediver observing orcas was interrupted by another species of whale ... with the black-and-white marine ...

For years, the megalodon has been imagined as a monstrous version of the great white shark. Depictions in movies and documentaries show a stocky, torpedo-shaped predator, built for speed and power.

According to the recent article about the shocking killer whale attack, this is the first widely observed occurrence of an orca hunting and killing a great white shark by itself. This occurrence ...

which is the average size of a blue whale and roughly equal to the height of the White House. Finding out details about how this gigantic shark survived and eventually went extinct can help us ...

Estimates suggest megalodon actually grew to between 15 and 18 metres in length, three times longer than the largest recorded great white shark. It may have been comparable in length to today's ...