A monstrous shark, predating whales, great whites, or even the bus-sized megalodon, once prowled the waters off what is now northern Australia during the Cretaceous period. Researchers, studying huge ...

The ocean depths are full of mysteries and monsters. But some of its greatest secrets and behemoths lie not beneath the waves of today, but beneath the rocks of prehistory. Most people have heard of ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — 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 ...

A illustration made in Sept. 3, 2025, of a gigantic 8-meter-long mega-predatory lamniform shark swimming beside a long-necked plesiosaur in the seas off Australia 115 million years ago. (Pollyanna von ...

According to Philip Stearns, a researcher at SeaWorld San Diego, the conventional method of predicting size using fossilized teeth estimated the megalodon to be about 18 to 20 meters in size. However, ...