To make their conclusion, published in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica, the team used fossils of Megalodon teeth and vertebrae and compared them to those of living shark relatives.
The only fossils that remain of the megalodon — the largest known shark ever to exist — are its human-hand-sized teeth. The prehistoric shark, which roamed Earth's oceans for over 20 million ...
How a human diver would have compared to the real Meg The enormity ... Until now, only the length of the Otodus Megalodon, as featured in the 2018 film The Meg, had been estimated from fossils ...
Humans have been measured with a bite force of around 1,317 Newtons ... This is now believed to be incorrect. O. megalodon likely had a much shorter nose, or rostrum, when compared with the great ...