The giant extinct shark species known as the megalodon has captured the interest of scientists and the general public alike, ...

Assuming that O. megalodon had a body plan consistent with the vast majority of sharks, the team determined that its head length and tail length possibly occupied about 16.6% and 32.6% ...

Assuming that O. megalodon had a body plan consistent with the vast majority of sharks, the team determined that its head length and tail length possibly occupied about 16.6% and 32.6% ...

The study team, which included researchers from University of California, Riverside and across the globe, used a novel approach to estimate the shark's total body length, moving beyond traditional ...

To fill in the gaps, Shimada and his colleagues developed a new method to estimate the body length of the leviathan, using a nearly complete vertebral column from Belgium and another incomplete ...

In order to estimate the shark's entire body length, Shimada collaborated with colleagues in Australia, Austria, Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the UK and the US, obtaining head ...

A major new study from Sweden has found that waist circumference (WC)—a simple measure of abdominal fat—may be a more ...