The megalodon is an infamous prehistoric creature, known for being a monstrous beast, often portrayed in films and books. But scientists have actually discovered that this infamous beast may have been ...

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 a ...

A newly described fossil from northern Australia reveals an 8 meter mega-shark that hunted in the age of dinosaurs, long ...

Customers walk through the mouth of a giant shark created by sculpture artist Bob Duato at Jaws Resortwear in Garden City Beach, N.C. In the early 2000s, the Myrtle Beach area went through a frenzy of ...

The recent accidental catch of a “very large” thresher shark off Rhode Island was fortuitous in that the shark was safely ...

Yeah, you’re definitely going to need a bigger boat. East Coast shark researchers fortunately had a better time than those in “Jaws” when they recently came across a nearly 3,000-pound monstrous great ...

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