Ptychodus was one of the largest prehistoric sharks, with some estimates placing its size up to 33 feet in length! Like today’s whale sharks it had a mouth full of teeth that were used to crush ...

“From modern sharks, it is known that larger individuals ... Yet their size hindered their mobility, something that prehistoric whales could have taken advantage of. Baleen whales of that ...

The recent autopsy of a partially devoured great white shark confirms a brutal hunting trend—killer whales around the world are not afraid to attack the fearsome fish, especially when they get a ...

An 18-meter-long, 50-ton behemoth once patrolled even the darkest corners of the world's oceans millions of years ago. The ...

Estimates suggest megalodon actually grew to between 15 and 18 metres in length, three times longer than the largest recorded great white shark. It may have been comparable in length to today's ...

To see if barnacles had the same properties long ago, Taylor hunted down fossils that lived on early humpback whales, and bingo: They did. He hopes to shed light on prehistoric whales’ movements ...

The carcass was found on the beach at Cape Bridgewater near Portland. Famously, killer whales have been documented at length targeting white sharks in South Africa, resulting in a mass exodus of ...

Today's marine trophic levels cap at six, with creatures like killer whales and great white sharks. The discovery of giant marine reptile apex predators occupying a seventh trophic level ...

Different sharks use different strategies to eat. Like many actual whales, the whale shark filter-feeds, straining teeny plankton from up to 400,000 gallons (1.5 million liters) of filtered water ...

Being so large, it mostly hunted whales, although young sharks are ... Megalodon may be the most well-known prehistoric shark, but it is far from the only one. Sharks have been around for more ...