The study highlights how large aquatic animals, including sharks ... A key breakthrough of this study was identifying the lemon shark as the best living analog for megalodon's proportions. Unlike the ...

For years, the megalodon has been imagined as a monstrous version of the great white shark. Depictions in movies and documentaries show a stocky, torpedo-shaped predator, built for speed and power.

New research reveals that the megalodon likely had a slender body more akin to a lemon shark than a great white. This ...

Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists ...

A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists ...

Scientists have long struggled to determine the size of the megalodon because no complete fossil of the extinct animal has been ... that of the modern lemon shark, rather than the great white.

Researchers in New Zealand found that a small species of shark makes noises with their teeth when touched by humans — and now ...

In terms of today’s shark parallels, think less “mako” and more “lemon.” Megalodons may have resembled sleeker lemon sharks than great whites. Credit: Deposit Photos Rob de Vries The ...

The study highlights how large aquatic animals including sharks ... A key breakthrough of this study was identifying the lemon shark as the best living analog for megalodon's proportions.

New research suggests that the prehistoric megalodon, the biggest shark known to have existed, was even larger than we ...

Lemon Shark, Negaprion brevirostris ... Still, Shimada’s findings on how giant sea animals’ size affect their speed could help us better understand the evolution of large sea creatures ...

Meanwhile, sleeker animals such as blue whales ... said he was surprised by both megalodon’s proposed similarity to a lemon shark and by the giant size proposed by Shimada and his team.