Posted on 02/14/2019 1:04:05 PM PST by EveningStar
Excellent! I hadn’t even scrolled down and she was the first thing that came to my mind...I guess I’m obsessed with her, just like the Democrat Party!
This theory seems a bit of a stretch. If great whites were breeding faster and food supplies were short then maybe, but megladons were an apex predator. I’d believe their food source depleting ( other large aquatic life ie water type dinousaurs) dying off a more likely theory. IMO.
Great white privilege?
Fwiw,
Neither my old undergrad biology prof, my late uncle nor I believe that the Megalodon is extinct.
Dr. Oliver said that there was NO reason for such an apex predator to die off, inasmuch as there were never many such creatures, the Megalodon was a “deep water shark” (thus few chances for human sightings) & there was/is not any shortage of suitable prey for them to eat.
Fwiw, shortly after VJ Day of WWII, the crew of USS CHAMPION (AM-314) caught an over 40 foot-long shark that looked like a White Shark except many TONS bigger.
(The largest known Great White was about 25 feet long.)
I’m told that there are official USN B&W photos of the shark on the deck of the CHAMPION. - Further, my uncle Wayne was the Acting COB of the CHAMPION & he said that he was present when the shark was winched aboard.
(There are also several verified reports of a whale carcass of Nicaragua with bites taken out of the carcass by a sea creature with a bite-radius well over 50” across.)
The famous “giant White Pointer” (As Great Whites are called in AUS/NZ) that was landed off Western Australia & measured at about 35 feet, in the 1870s was PROBABLY a Megalodon.
Note: For a long time, COELACANTH, “the living dinosaur fish”, were thought to have been extinct for MILLIONS of years, until one was caught off East Africa. - Turns out that the Coelacanths are not even rare in the waters of the South Atlantic.
(Local fish markets in the West Africa coastal area often have whole/fresh Coelcanths for sale.)
Yours,TMN78247
I tend to agree for what that’s worth. I’ve been in and over the Atlantic and that’s a lot of water and space. What’s in there in any ocean area is hard to say. We know less about what’s under the water than what’s around our universe. It’s nice to know we don’t know zilch.
VERY TRUE. Jacques Clousteau, not long before his passing said that: More is known about the Planet Pluto than about the depths of the sea.
More men have walked on the Moon than have been down beyond 7 miles under the sea in a HOV Submersible.
Yours, TMN78247
Not what Noory said.
To All,
I failed to note in my post above that a 25 foot White Shark has a bite radius of about 24-28 inches. = Just think how large a similarly shaped shark, with an over 50 inch bite radius, would be.
Some fossilized teeth of the Megalodon are 8 inches in length & about 6 inches wide at the root.
Yours, TMN78247
You said check out this huge fossilized shark tooth my neighbor found! Ok, where is the tooth? I can’t find it. I’ve looked for it for over ten minutes and still can’t find it. :)
Thanks EveningStar.
Those teeth look awfully round. Not sure they would work very well.
Annie Hall - Shark Scene | October 17, 2009 | bluestars
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