Although the holidays might seem some ways away, Toy Fair 2025 gave us an early taste of the hottest toys and games we expect to see on every child’s wishlist. The biggest brands of the toy ...

Scientists have reexamined the total body length of the megalodon, finding it to be as much as 30 feet (nine metres) longer than previously thought. Humans never coexisted with the prehistoric shark.

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A new study suggests that the megalodon wasn't as stocky as the great white shark, and that it could have reached over 24 m (80 ft) in length. As is the case with other prehistoric sharks ...

The megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon, is an iconic shark represented primarily by its gigantic teeth in the Neogene fossil record, but the lack of well-preserved skeletons has hampered the ...

Joan Verdon is a veteran retail reporter based in Northern New Jersey. The theme at New York Toy Fair is “Play Reimagined”, and this year the toy companies - large and small - that are ...

Few prehistoric monsters capture the imagination quite like the megalodon. From natural history museums to the silver screen, this colossal shark, which went extinct over three million years ago ...

The research, published Sunday in the journal “Palaeontologia Electronica,” suggests that the megalodon, which dominated the ocean 3.5 million years ago, was more than three times the size of ...

Yet back then, any one of these creatures could become prey to the ocean's fiercest apex predator: the megalodon, a giant shark with massive teeth and a body the size of a whale. In many ways ...

The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong. The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body—closer in ...

It remains a sad fact of this world that we will never know for certain what the long-lost megalodon truly looked like – but a new study gives us what may be the most accurate reconstruction yet. An ...