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

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have reexamined the total body length of the megalodon, finding it to be as much as 30 feet (9 meters) longer than ...

For decades, the giant prehistoric shark known ominously as “The Meg" has been portrayed as a massive apex predator that hunted the only formidable opponent in the oceans at the time: whales. But new ...

Contrary to widespread assumptions, the largest shark that ever lived -- Otodus megalodon -- fed on marine creatures at various levels of the food pyramid and not just the top. Scientists analyzed the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lead study author Jeremy McCormack of Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, holds up a fossilized megalodon tooth. - Uwe ...

(CNN) — Paleobiologist Dr. Kenshu Shimada has been fascinated by fossil sharks, including the giant Otodus megalodon, since childhood — he found his first megalodon tooth at 13 years old. So when he ...