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The Mediterranean Dwarf Megalodon Does Not Exist: It Turned Out to Be Just a Myth

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Recent research on the biology of the extinct Otodus megalodon, the largest predatory shark ever, had suggested that the Mediterranean populations reached significantly smaller sizes than those of other regions of the planet, giving rise even to the term “Mediterranean dwarfism”. However, a new study, led by the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology of the Universitat de València (UV), in collaboration with various Spanis…
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Recent research on the biology of the extinct Otodus megalodon, the largest predatory shark ever, had suggested that the Mediterranean populations reached significantly smaller sizes than those of other regions of the planet, giving rise even to the term “Mediterranean dwarfism”. However, a new study, led by the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology of the Universitat de València (UV), in collaboration with various Spanis…

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RUVID broke the news in on Thursday, January 29, 2026.
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