Megalodons were the biggest sharks on the planet. Recent studies show how these apex predators reached lengths of 50 feet with heads the size of cars.

Roaming the ancient seas eons ago, the megalodon shark eviscerated its prey with jaws that were 10 feet wide. Warpaintcobra/iStock via Getty Images Plus Imagine traveling back in time and observing ...

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 ...

Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back to further in the Cretaceous period than was previously known ...

The biggest, most formidable shark to have ever roamed the ocean may have been even larger than previously thought, according to a new study. The research, published Sunday in the journal ...

The ocean depths are full of mysteries and monsters. But some of its greatest secrets and behemoths lie not beneath the waves ...

Researchers examining large vertebrae discovered near Darwin identified the creature as the earliest known mega-predator in the lineage of modern sharks, living some 15 million years earlier than ...

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 monsters of the Cretaceous ...

Australia Mega Predator Sharks 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 ...

Megalodon teeth are the largest of all shark species. With teeth that can measure up to the size of a human hand, it is easy to imagine just how enormous these ancient sharks were. However, there is ...

A family's vacation turned into a real treasure hunt after they excavated a monster-sized megalodon shark tooth in South Carolina. Paul Columbia and his sons were in Summerville when they unearthed ...

Jacob Danner has searched a Florida beach for washed-up items almost every sunrise for the past year. But three weeks ago, Danner, an art curator, found his first megalodon tooth - 3 inches long, and ...