An AI-generated image of a shark has been passed off as a genuine image of a long-extinct megalodon shark in social media ...

The battle for diminishing stocks of whales and other prey may have pushed the megalodon to extinction three million years ago. Environmental pressures, such as sea level changes, also played a role.

This extraordinary fossil may help create a better picture of what these gigantic predators looked like. We know that megalodon had become extinct by the end of the Pliocene (2.6 million years ago), ...

This extraordinary fossil may help create a better picture of what these gigantic predators looked like. We know that megalodon had become extinct by the end of the Pliocene (2.6 million years ago), ...

When did the megalodon shark go extinct, and why? – Landon, age 10 Imagine traveling back in time and observing the oceans of ...

Some posts claimed the image dated to the early 1900s and identified the creature as a megalodon. Megalodons were giant ...

Just in time for summer, the megalodon—the ancient, city bus-sized shark known as the “Megatooth”—has reared its ravenous snout. While the oceans are now safe from the Megatooth, which went extinct an ...

The new research out today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the megalodon’s warm-bloodedness may have contributed to its extinction. “Maintaining an energy ...

Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert ...

The ocean’s most formidable cold-hearted killer, the long-extinct giant megalodon shark, may have been warm-blooded – which could have caused its disappearance more than three million years ago.

The Megalodon — a massive shark that is thought to have died out around 2.6 million years ago — has left plenty of fossils behind for researchers to find, but determining what exactly killed ...