"We launched the drone, put the GoPro in the water, and saw something unforgettable: an octopus perched atop the shark’s head, clinging on with its tentacles," Rochelle Constantine, a professor in the ...

For years, the megalodon has been imagined as a monstrous version of the great white shark. Depictions in movies and ...

"This study provides the most robust analysis yet of megalodon's body size and shape," said Phillip Sternes, a shark ...

If Meg 3 ever happens, the filmmakers might need to ditch the oversized great white shark trope. A new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica found that the famous megalodon wasn’t just an ...

Researchers refined their size estimates of the prehistoric shark by studying the bodily proportions of 165 other shark ...

Few prehistoric monsters capture the imagination quite like the megalodon. From natural history museums to the silver screen, ...

Shark biologists now say a lemon shark, like this one, is a better model of the extinct megalodon's body than the great white shark. (Image Courtesy of: Albert Kok) We’re gonna need a bigger shark ...

A group of marine biologists who have spent years researching sharks and their behaviour were completely dumbfounded by a rare sight off the coast of New Zealand.