LIVE SCIENCE - Scientists say they have discovered a discrepancy in previous research and suggest megalodons may have been longer and more slender than previously believed — but not everyone is convinced.
The team of 26 shark experts revealed their findings in a new study, published Jan. 21 in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica.
Instead, megalodon might have resembled something closer to a mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus), co-lead author Phillip Sternes, a biologist at University of California Riverside, said in a statement.