Watch this footage of two Megamouth sharks, which is apparently a rare sighting. Kristy McNichol Now: Why the 'Family' Star ...

However, most megamouth sharks recorded to date have been less than about 5.5m long. This is about the length of a tiger shark or the height of an adult giraffe.

The megamouth shark is very rarely sighted by humans, and can live up to 100 years. They can live as far as 15,000 feet below the surface of the ocean, spending most of their lives in the dark.

The megamouth shark is thought to be the only member of the taxonomic family Megachasmidae. It eats plankton and jellyfish, but little is known about its actual feeding behavior. Zola Chen ...

Based on that tooth, paleontologists have been able to name a previously unknown ancient species of megamouth shark, one that's related to the modern but rarely seen megamouth shark, Megachasma ...

Extremely rare 'megamouth' shark sighting near San Diego Fishermen spotted two megamouth sharks 30 miles off the coast of San Diego, California. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles!

A Southern California fisherman has captured video footage of what appears to have been an exceedingly rare megamouth shark. Ryan Brandeburg was fishing for tuna with a friend Wednesday 24 miles ...

Like in the script of an action movie, we first went to get one of our heroes out of retirement for this last attempt to name the fossil Megamouth. Bruce Welton, a UC Berkeley-trained fossil shark ...

It’s a one-in-a-mega-million find. Taiwanese fishermen caught the attention of the scientific community after catching an elusive megamouth shark, known as Megachasma pelagios, in 2018.

Now, a megamouth that was captured by fishers off the coast of Taiwan in 2018 is sitting on a gigantic block of ice at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Support Center. The ...

The megamouth shark has only been filmed a handful of times over the past 41 years. "This is the first-ever video recording of this shark in its natural environment," Bielich said of her 26-second ...