For years, Megalodon’s size has been a mystery. Now, new research sheds light on just how enormous this ancient shark really was. Trump flexes political muscles as veto overrides fail TSA is leaving ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The ocean’s ultimate predator once hunted whales with ease.

Before the famously huge megalodon, another fearsome ocean predator roamed the seas. According to a paper published earlier this year in Communications Biology, a massive shark that exceeded the size ...

Before whales, great whites, or the bus-sized megalodon prowled the seas, a colossal shark was already ruling Cretaceous waters off what’s now northern Australia. New research on a handful of ...

In the age of dinosaurs—before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon—a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what's now northern Australia, among the sea monsters of the Cretaceous period.

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