the evolving science behind estimating the size of the largest ever killer shark
- Written by John Long, Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
Model based on a sculpture by Vlad Konstantinov/CDM Studios, Author providedThe giant prehistoric Carcharocles megalodon (or Otodus megalodon for some researchers) was the largest predatory shark to ever swim in Earth’s seas. Scientific evidence points to megalodon having lived between 16 million and 2.6 million years ago, going extinct at...





