Published on: 2025-06-26 07:01:58
15 million years before movies like Jaws and Open Water gave swimmers the heebie-jeebies, a prehistoric shark species called Otodus megalodon reached gargantuan sizes. Researchers have reassessed just how large the now-extinct beast would have been—and the results are fin-tastic. To refine its own estimates of megalodon’s size, an international team of biologists, paleontologists, and anatomists analyzed partial megalodon fossils alongside the morphology of both existing and extinct shark speci
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 07:01:43
The giant extinct shark species known as the megalodon has captured the interest of scientists and the general public alike, even inspiring the 2018 blockbuster film The Meg. The species lived some 3.6 million years ago and no complete skeleton has yet been found. So there has been considerable debate among paleobiologists about megalodon's size, body shape and swimming speed, among other characteristics. While some researchers have compared megalodon to a gigantic version of the stocky great w
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