For example, a 24.3-meter-long O. megalodon would have weighed around 94 tons, and the cruising speed estimated from scale morphology was 2.1–3.5 kilometers (1.3–2.2 miles) per hour, which is ...

The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago, and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth. But there's debate over what it looked like. Most scientists have described it as ...

The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth — until now. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on January 23m 2023.

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.

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Few prehistoric monsters capture the imagination quite like the megalodon. From natural history museums to the silver screen, this colossal shark, which went extinct over three million years ago ...

Yet back then, any one of these creatures could become prey to the ocean's fiercest apex predator: the megalodon, a giant shark with massive teeth and a body the size of a whale. In many ways ...

Their giant teeth — left behind in coastal sediments like spent bullets — inspired the 1843 name that has since become a household word: megalodon. Despite the megatoothed shark’s fame ...

The research, published Sunday in the journal “Palaeontologia Electronica,” suggests that the megalodon, which dominated the ocean 3.5 million years ago, was more than three times the size of ...

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