The curious minds at What If imagine the Megalodon shark never going extinct today, exploring how these massive predators ...

Megalodon sharks were among the largest and most formidable predators ever to exist, dominating the oceans millions of years ...

This week in the journal Nature Communications, scientists report a way to use fossilized shark teeth to figure out where different shark species, including megalodon, stood in the web of life. And ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The ocean’s ultimate predator once hunted whales with ease.

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Before the famously huge megalodon, another fearsome ocean predator roamed the seas. According to a paper published earlier this year in Communications Biology, a massive shark that exceeded the size ...

This year, at least six animal and insect species moved to the Extinct category of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within. But there's a hidden ...

An immersive exhibition of giant prehistoric animals will open at the National Museum of Scotland this month. Giants will ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s greatest extinction. Tens of thousands of fossils reveal fully aquatic ...

The worms have been named after Jeff Daniels, star of the seminal 1990 comedy-horror film “Arachnophobia.” The extinction of ...

One of the world’s rarest wild felines has been spotted in Thailand for the first time since 1995. Flat-headed cats—named for their unique flat foreheads and long skulls—were detected 13 times in 2024 ...