Some Megalodons Reached 80 Feet—But They Weren’t Built Like Great Whites, Research Suggests
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 … Read more