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How wide was megalodon’s bite?

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Illustration of a female megalodon shark (Carcharocles megalodon) with a faint human scuba diver silhouette in the background for scale, highlighting the shark's massive size. Measurement bars at the bottom show 3 meters and 9 feet for reference. — megalodon Megalodon (*Carcharocles megalodon*) was a species of shark that lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (23.03 million to 2.58 million years ago).

The megalodon possessed a massive mouth, with a bite diameter estimated to be approximately 3 meters, or nearly 10 feet wide. This bite size was several times larger than that of an average-sized great white shark, contributing to the megalodon's status as a formidable apex predator.12