Megalodon, the largest shark ever, may have been a long, slender giant
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Originally Having a Stocky Build, the Gigantic Megalodon Gets a
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Sea monsters made great mothers
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Megalodon didn't look like a 50-foot great white shark
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This newfound predator may have terrorized the Cambrian seafloor
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Megalodons were skinnier than we previously thought, new study
Hodari In before megalodon turns out to be a giant benthic
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MEGALODON: HISTORY'S MIGHTIEST . . . SCAVENGER? - Max Hawthorne