The massive Megalodon had a staggering 100,000 kilocalories-per-day nutritional demand—which it didn't always fill as ...

From there, they attached it to a comparably sized megalodon jaw, resulting in a more or less complete skeletal structure. Finally, they used the morphology of living South African great whites to ...

In order to tackle prey as large as whales, megalodon had to be able to open its mouth wide. It’s estimated that its jaw would span 2.7 by 3.4 metres wide. That’s easily big enough to swallow two ...

Roaming the ancient seas eons ago, the megalodon shark eviscerated its prey with jaws that were 10 feet wide. Warpaintcobra/iStock via Getty Images Plus Michael Heithaus, Florida International ...

The model megalodon’s jaws could open wide enough to gobble a 26-foot orca in as few as five bites. How reliable is such computer modeling? “These reconstructions work pretty well when applied ...

Estimating megalodon’s length requires detective work No megalodon jaw fossils have ever been discovered. The replicas seen at many museums are all based on size estimates from teeth or other ...

A museum curator gives a sense of scale to the reconstructed jaws of the fossil shark Otodus megalodon. Rick Meyer / Contributor via Getty Images In the more than 400 million years that sharks ...

Megalodon lived. Past tense. The largest shark ever, and arguably the largest predator, went extinct 2.6 million or more years ago. And it has stayed that way. But Hollywood sequel makers will be ...

Most of us picture the megalodon as a Jason-Statham-hunting monster ... of this shark other than the size and robustness of the jaws would require the discovery of more-or-less complete skeletons.” ...

In order to tackle prey as large as whales, megalodon had to be able to open its mouth wide. It is estimated that its jaw would span 2.7 by 3.4 metres wide, easily big enough to swallow two adult ...