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MEGALODON MAY NOT HAVE BEEN QUITE SO MEGA, CONTROVERSIAL STUDY SUGGESTS
BBC Science Focus
|February 2024
Shark experts now disagree over the apex predator's shape and size
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A bold new study claims we've had the megalodon all wrong.
According to the study, the prehistoric predator Otodus megalodon may have been more of a long and slender shark than the chunky beast we imagine today.
Nose to tail, the megalodon is generally thought to have been 15-20m (50-65ft) long.
It dominated Earth's seas between 15 to 3.6 million years ago, but very little evidence of it exists in the fossil record - with only teeth and vertebrae available rather than any complete skeletons.
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