The investigators at Debunked investigate whether Megalodon was simply a giant version of the great white shark.

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.

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 ...

The transcriptome (or sum total of the messenger RNA) of the white shark showed greater similarity to the human transcriptome ...

Fifty years ago, a great white shark terrorized the residents of Amity Island in "Jaws," Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece about ...

The largest kind of shark is called the whale shark, which has been known to get as large as 60-feet long, the Smithsonian ...

In early 2025, OCEARCH, a marine research non‑profit, found and tagged a massive male great white shark off the ...

When Jaws first aired, scientists didn’t know how long sharks took to reproduce, or how many offspring a white shark could ...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, NBC is airing ‘Jaws’ on its 50th anniversary. All these years ...

Jaws' reignited existing fears of sharks. But it also inspired new generations of researchers interested in the apex ...