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Great white sharks likely pushed the massive megalodon to extinction
Yahoo Finance ^ | February 13, 2019 | [BGR News] Mike Wehner

Posted on 02/14/2019 4:31:58 PM PST by jonascord

Taking a dip in the ocean and coming face to face with a predator of the deep would be enough to scare anyone. Modern day great white sharks are intimidating creatures, but they wouldn’t have held a candle to the ancient super-sized beast known as megalodon.

The long-extinct shark has been the subject of many research efforts in the past, with scientists attempting to determine when and where it lived, and perhaps even figure out why it’s no longer around. Now, new fossil evidence suggests that the colossal creature actually died off quite a bit earlier than was originally thought, and great white sharks might have been to blame.

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TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: cryptobiology; extinction; fossils; godsgravesglyphs; greatwhiteshark; megalodon; paleontology; sharks
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Is this the ultimate in White Privilege?
1 posted on 02/14/2019 4:31:58 PM PST by jonascord
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Obviously the only solution is common-sense Great White Shark control.


2 posted on 02/14/2019 4:32:55 PM PST by Luircin
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To: jonascord

Related...


3 posted on 02/14/2019 4:34:40 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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Climate change probably did off meglodeon; yeah, that’s it .


4 posted on 02/14/2019 4:43:39 PM PST by A strike (I DEMAND my responsibilities!)
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Why is this under Yahoo Finance? Anything to avoid discussing Trump’s good economy?


5 posted on 02/14/2019 4:45:20 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
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To: jonascord

This is why I swim in the lake.


6 posted on 02/14/2019 4:50:27 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Climate change probably did off meglodeon; yeah, that’s it .

Isn't it amazing that Climate Change can cause great white sharks to kill of a giant species millions of years ago?

7 posted on 02/14/2019 4:50:32 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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White and Great is one sentence... On Yahoo... I am shocked!


8 posted on 02/14/2019 4:54:20 PM PST by NorseViking
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"Why is this under Yahoo Finance?"

If they put it in Politics, it would be Virtue Signaling. The editor is a new hire, from Huffpo. Science is right out. That's reserved for "Climate Change" and chem trails.

9 posted on 02/14/2019 5:01:58 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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Well, Yeah !

United States caused Climate! Change! is the source of evil in this world, don’cha think?


10 posted on 02/14/2019 5:06:36 PM PST by A strike (I DEMAND my responsibilities!)
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If the Megaladon was significantly bigger than the Great White, wouldn’t they have been killing and eating different things?


11 posted on 02/14/2019 5:07:44 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Sometimes size doesn’t matter???


12 posted on 02/14/2019 5:26:24 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Ruth Bader Ginsburg doctor is a taxidermist.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Watch out for Snapping Turtles.


13 posted on 02/14/2019 5:38:50 PM PST by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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for Doug


14 posted on 02/14/2019 5:39:01 PM PST by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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A major reason why Megaladon died out was slowly cooling ocean temps and the loss of the species of whales it hunted.
15 posted on 02/14/2019 5:40:26 PM PST by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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Why post anything from Yahoo?
I guess just to piss me off.


16 posted on 02/14/2019 5:51:20 PM PST by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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To: A strike

Nope it was either tax cuts or lack of universal background checks.


17 posted on 02/14/2019 6:07:45 PM PST by entropy12 (Legal immigrants under chain migration not any better than illegal immigrants! Merit ONLY!!)
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To: jonascord

Yep, whites destroying the earth as always.


18 posted on 02/14/2019 6:14:15 PM PST by D Rider
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White trophy hunters didn’t kill them off? No global warming? Damn.


19 posted on 02/14/2019 6:17:40 PM PST by Rannug (When you're dead, you're dead. Until then fight with everything you have.)
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To: entropy12

Dude that’s racisss !


20 posted on 02/14/2019 6:32:55 PM PST by A strike (I DEMAND my responsibilities!)
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