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Post by HRH Queen Talira on Jun 11, 2018 7:20:00 GMT
Megalodon, the largest of the prehistoric sharks. It supposedly went extinct around 2.5 million years ago, but some people believe it may still exist. What do you think? It is really possible this giant shark might still be with us?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2018 14:03:31 GMT
I’m gonna say yes...many people believe it exists deep in the Mariana Trench. Huge teeth have been found,that are wayyyy bigger than even a great whites teeth,
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Post by HRH Queen Talira on Aug 7, 2018 3:57:22 GMT
It's rare to find Megalodon teeth longer than twelve centimetres. The biggest one ever found measures around eighteen centimetres, almost three times the size of the teeth of a modern Great White. Here's another thing: the bite force of a modern Great White is around 1,814kgs (4000 pounds). T-Rex's bite force is thought to have been anywhere between 3,628kgs and 5,900kgs (8000-13,000 pounds). The bite force of a Megalodon, however, may have been up to 20,000kgs (40,000 pounds). If this is true, it means the Megalodon had the strongest bite of any known animal.
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Post by magicmuggle01 on Aug 7, 2018 6:11:30 GMT
Is this per square inch.
@talira
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Post by HRH Queen Talira on Aug 7, 2018 6:32:07 GMT
Yes, I think that's how bite force is measured, though I could be wrong.
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Post by magicmuggle01 on Aug 7, 2018 10:02:45 GMT
20.000!!!! This is some bite. I wouldn't fancy my chances of survival.
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Post by HRH Queen Talira on Aug 8, 2018 0:53:22 GMT
It's estimated that Megalodon could reach a length of between eighteen and twenty-two metres, roughly the same size as a modern Whale shark.
There's an upcoming science fiction horror movie called "The Meg", scheduled for release in cinemas later this month. It follows a group of scientists as they try to stop a 75-foot Megalodon from terrorizing a beach.
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Post by HRH Queen Talira on Aug 9, 2018 7:45:40 GMT
Check out this photo. The small tooth belongs to a modern Great White. The big one next to it is the tooth of a Megalodon.
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Post by Tundra on Sept 13, 2018 22:54:05 GMT
I'm gonna say no, for a simple reason; If Megalodons roamed the Mariana Trench, what sustains them? A polar bear can eat 100 pounds of meat in 1 sitting, or more. Imagine what it would take to sate a Megalodon, at one of the most desolate and inhospitable places on Earth.
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Post by HRH Queen Talira on Sept 14, 2018 0:53:35 GMT
Being big is fine as long as there's enough food to keep you going. Although we don't know for certain, it's been estimated that, due to its size, Megalodon had to eat well over 1,000kg of meat every day to survive.
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Post by Tundra on Sept 14, 2018 22:21:16 GMT
Absolutely true, and thanks for the food estimate for the Meg, wasn't aware of the specifics. But, there aren't any large animals living in the Mariana Trench. Most of the creatures there aren't much bigger than a single megalodon tooth. Surely this isn't enough to sustain megalodons for any extended period of time.
If there was a viable population down there at any point, surely they'd have had to expand territory for new food sources, and thus would have been sighted.
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Post by HRH Queen Talira on Sept 15, 2018 1:57:15 GMT
Megalodon also had to compete with other large predators such as Brygmophyseter (aka: the biting Sperm whale).
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Post by Tundra on Sept 16, 2018 0:37:19 GMT
A great point; If they were still alive, they'd have no natural predators and either run rampant, or if no sufficient foodsource was available (given that they wouldn't really belong in any present day food chain), they'd eat each other straight back to extinction.
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Post by magicmuggle01 on Sept 30, 2018 21:47:39 GMT
I think that both sides of the argument have valid reasoning.
Where this is concerned I like to keep an open mind. They're always finding new species (dead or alive). So it wouldn't surprise me if there was something out there. All I can say is that after I saw jaws, it took along time for me to get back into the water. So if there's a Megladon out there I'd never go in the water again lol
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