The megalodon, for instance ... you needed one more chilling prehistoric sea creature to add to the list, the Dunkleosteus was a genus of underwater armored apex predators that could reach ...

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 ...

For example, there is still a great deal of reasonable debate about how best to estimate Megalodon’s size. Science News sponsorship position. Cooper adds that the report inaccurately claimed his ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...