The megalodon is considered the largest shark to have ever lived, according to the Natural History Museum. Records of megalodons date to around 20 million years ago, and the shark is a distant ...

Orcas’ physiology should hamper their ability to catch whale sharks. “They have lungs,” says Pancaldi. The whale shark, with gills, can do infinite lurks and dive 2,000 meters deep, while its mammal ...

A spokesman for Tendring Seal Watch who discovered the shark said: "Unusually, a relatively large shark was washed up dead on ...

When they're wearing salmon hats and terrorizing yachts, it's easy, perhaps, to forget that orcas are the most fearsome large ...

While the whale shark is certainly a big animal, it is considerably smaller than the blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, which is the biggest animal in the world. The largest blue whale ever recorded ...

The biggest blue shark ever caught in British waters has been reeled in, smashing a 58-year-old record. John Dines, from Essex, caught the 8.8ft (2.7m) creature, which weighed 256.5lb (113kg), on ...

Estimates suggest megalodon actually grew to between 15 and 18 metres in length, three times longer than the largest recorded great white shark. It may have been comparable in length to today's ...

A diver alongside an impossibly huge great white shark. Just staring at them ... and personal with what's thought to be the biggest great white on record - Deep Blue. "I thought my heart was ...