Shark Gallery

Megalodon shark and great white

Megalodon shark (Carcharodon megalodon), computer artwork. A great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is shown below it at the same scale. This enormous shark lived between around 20 and 1.2 million years ago, and is known from fossils. It was related to the modern great white shark, and is thought to have fed on whales, as this is the only source of food that could have provided it with enough meat. Megalodon was thought to attain lengths exceeding 20 metres, and possibly significantly larger. It is thought that it died out after the seas cooled, allowing warm-blooded whales to escape the sharks for much of the year by swimming to waters too cold for them to survive in

© CHRISTIAN DARKIN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Megalodon prehistoric shark

Megalodon prehistoric shark, artwork, hunting a school of fish. Megalodon, Carcharocles (Carcharodon) megalodon, lived between around 20 and 1.2 million years ago, and is known only from fossils. It was related to the modern great white shark, and possibly preyed mainly on whales. Megalodon was thought to attain lengths exceeding 20 metres, and possibly much larger. It is thought that it died out after the seas cooled, allowing warm-blooded whales to escape the sharks for much of the year by swimming to waters too cold for them to survive in

© CHRISTIAN DARKIN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Whale Shark - Shark is swimming near the bottom in 24m. School of Trevally are following the shark

VT-8592 Whale Shark - Shark is swimming near the bottom in 24m. School of Trevally are following the shark. Ningaloo reef, Western Australia. Rhincodon typus Valerie & Ron Taylor Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

© Ron and Valerie Taylor / ardea.com

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