Ancient megalodon and great white sharks might not be that similar, study finds The Meg, a horror flick from 2018, might have you think the Megalodon looks like an enlarged Great White.

Megalodons have been portrayed as gigantic great whites, but new research suggests they were more svelte and less agile ...

And just like the great white shark inspired Jaws, the megalodon has also inspired a 1997 novel and a blockbuster film (2018's The Meg)—not to mention a controversial bit of "docu-fiction" on ...

The investigators at Debunked investigate whether Megalodon was simply a giant version of the great white shark.

Megalodon has long been depicted as a monstrous, super-sized predator resembling a colossal great white shark. However, a groundbreaking scientific study, recently published in the Palaeontologia ...

Megalodon, the ancient shark often depicted as a super-sized great white, was in fact a rather different beast, according to a new analysis of fossil evidence.

Great white sharks evolved about 4 million years ago, overlapping with megalodon for approximately 400,000 years, Live Science previously reported. At first, megalodon and great whites occupied ...

A new study shows the Megalodon, a gigantic shark that went extinct 3.6 million years ago, was more slender than earlier studies suggested. This finding changes scientists’ understanding of Megalodon ...

The researchers say megalodon was likely longer and slimmer, so it might not look like the great white shark model after all. "We still don't know the exact shape of its head, fins, or tail ...

Previous estimates dated megalodon extinction to around 2.6 million years ago. Earlier studies linked the extinction of the ancient shark to a period of mass extinction in Earth’s oceans which ...

The great white shark is a formidable oceanic hunter. Its powerful jaws are capable of exerting over 4,000 pounds per square inch (PSI) of bite force — enough to shatter a human femur.. But compared ...

Unlike the great white, lemon sharks have a more elongated body. When the researchers scaled up the proportions of a lemon shark to megalodon’s estimated length, it was a near-perfect match. “This ...