A fake shark story died on paper but lived online, where repetition, fear, and clever editing keep turning extinction into legend.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The biggest, most formidable shark to have ever roamed the ocean may have been even larger than previously thought, according to a ...

Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins, whales and large sea cows roamed the world’s oceans, topping the underwater food chain. Yet back then, any one of these creatures could ...

Everyone's favorite prehistoric shark may have been much sleeker and much larger than previously thought. A new study suggests that the megalodon wasn't as stocky as the great white shark, and that it ...

A new study has uncovered surprising insights into the feeding habits of the largest predatory fish to ever roam the Earth's oceans, challenging long-standing assumptions about the prehistoric ...

Megalodon teeth are the largest of all shark species. With teeth that can measure up to the size of a human hand, it is easy to imagine just how enormous these ancient sharks were. However, there is ...

Flinders University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Imagine the seas off Peru, 6 million years ago. A group of long-nosed dolphins swam through the warm seawater, breaking the ...

A shark so rare it was once thought to be extinct was just spotted off the Welsh coast. The Wildlife Trust of Wales captured footage of the angel shark in Cardigan Bay, the first documented sighting ...

FRANKFURT. Otodus megalodon was the largest predatory fish in Earth’s history: Measuring up to 24 meters, it was longer than a truck with a trailer and weighed almost twice as much. Embedded in its ...

The Meg was shaped more like a whale than the giant great white shark in the Jason Statham movies, suggests new research. Megalodon, the prehistoric ocean hunter, was a "longer, sleeker super predator ...