Ancient megalodon super-predators could swallow a great white shark whole, new model reveals

Phys.org ^ | 8/21/2022 | Stephen Wroe

[Flick Lives]

Imagine the orthodontics bill on a megalodon.

[Candor7]

Well, despite the name, which is British, she seems to be a museum style author who writes about mystery. And pure as the driven snow it seems, but you are right, she should be on TV doing the weather, LOL, I could put some Clair Cock-Starkey to good use humor :

Claire Cock-Starkey:

Story about her:

https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/whats-on/take-our-museum-quiz-by-cambridge-author-who-delved-into-their-mysteries-9110907/

[telescope115]

Can you just imagine an exchange between Rodney Dangerfield and Don Rickles? Now THAT would’ve been epic!

[dfwgator]

Big deal, so could Jerrold Nadler.

[mware]

Remember when they blew up a whale on a beach with explosives on tv. Lord what a mess.

[oldasrocks]

But would he recycle the cans?
I hope they can find some DNA and revive them. One of them would feed half of Japan.

[RedMonqey]

Or eat half of Japan.

[Scarlett156]

A winsome redhead, she is. #ClaireCockStarkey

[Tallguy]

Just why this formidable predator went extinct remains a mystery. It could have been linked to global cooling, or competition from other predators such as orcas (killer whales). This is just one of many unanswered questions.

A lot of these things come down to physiology -- which is hard to reconstruct. Assume a 61 ton, cold blooded toothed fish. Probably not real fast. Something like a modern Whale Shark... not fast enough to stay with a pod of whales in open ocean. So it hangs in the shallow seas where it probably can't use the 3rd dimension to ambush like a modern GW Shark. So what is it feeding on? Has to be something big and relatively easy to catch.

[Vaduz]

Megalodon Super-Predators = IRS

[Getready]

All that based on a nearly complete set of vertebrae....

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks LibWhacker. A few years ago it was in vogue to attribute one particularly odd munchin' down of a tagged great white to a megala, megalo, whatever the spelling is.

[SunkenCiv]

https://search.brave.com/videos?q=mouth%20reconstruction%20megalodon

https://www.google.com/search?q=megalodon+jaw&tbm=isch

The Truth Behind Megalodon Sharks That Inspire ‘The Meg’ Movie [2018]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB8ciwR6lUM

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=megalodon

[SunkenCiv]

Megalodons were cannibals! Study shows the megatooth sharks were higher up the food chain than any modern marine predators – and may even have eaten each other
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10945255/Megalodon-higher-food-chain-marine-animal-study-says.html

[SunkenCiv]

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