Megalodon have always been compared to the modern great white shark. Scientists have found a reason why it shouldn't be.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roaming the ancient seas eons ago, the megalodon shark eviscerated its prey with jaws that were 10 feet wide. Warpaintcobra/iStock ...

A Gulf Coast woman joined an exclusive marine-paleontology club last week when she discovered the tooth of a megalodon, the gargantuan ancestor of modern sharks that vanished from the world's oceans ...

(CNN) — What scientists understand about the voracious feeding habits of the colossal megalodon could be up for some revision. The prehistoric predator that went extinct about 3.6 million years ago ...