How megalodon's teeth evolved into the 'ultimate cutting tools'

Phys.org ^ | March 4, 2019 | Natalie Van Hoose, Florida Museum of Natural History

[Responsibility2nd]

....known only from its gigantic bladelike teeth, which can be more than 7 inches long....

 

Oh. Great. Another AOC thread.

Reads more of the article.

Ooops. Never mind.

 

[PetroniusMaximus]

[ETL]

[ETL]

"REAL or FAKE?"

[ETL]

Shared common ancestor

[Responsibility2nd]

Real or Fake, you said?

They look really Real to me. Yes they do.

[Reily]

I didn’t notice a megalodon tooth in 5?

what we talking about again?

[DungeonMaster]

I just read an article describing the impossibility of evolution of any imagined first life form. If you can't get to first base who cares about sharks.

Another interesting discussion is the idea of some mammal evolving into a whale in the limited time required.

But again, try proving a protein can evolve from amino acids. A protein is to a bacterium what a bolt is to an F-150.

https://evolutionnews.org/2012/12/top_five_probl/

[ETL]

Yes, as with the origin of the universe, many mysteries remain and may never be resolved.

[teeman8r]

tough call on this one.

[goldstategop]

A larger version of its relative the great white shark. It was an apex predator and an awesome killing machine.

It was the terror of the deep.

[Ancesthntr]

“If you can’t get to first base who cares about sharks.”

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After seeing #5, my question is “Can a shark help me get to first base?”

[Ancesthntr]

“But these teeth, described by some scientists as the “ultimate cutting tools,” “

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No, sorry, they’ve been replaced by the Ginsu Knife.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Technically speaking, I see (again!) in this writeup a detailed “Intelligent Designer” who “looked at what was the problem (teeth decay, particles getting stuck in the cusps, a different/better way of chewing pieces of living meat from whales) and “deciding” to change the tooth to make it work better.

Rather, if “evolution” is correct, the changes were accidental and random, were only rarely successful at creating a new function or a more efficient shark or a better-fed shark, and all of the “failures” were never seen again. But, of course, “successful mutations” that were killed off by a different failure (good teeth but born with a short tail or no eyes) never got evolved either.

And that is the problem: The requirement that every successful random change be filtered out from the millions of simultaneous unsuccessful changes, and be kept in place through successive generations after randomly popping up fro nothing and not lost again, and that random changes actually improve things. NO item “evolves” to “do something” - It only happens.

Good photo’s - as always! Thank you ETL.

[Robert A Cook PE]

You can get to first base with a shark.
Having a shark with you while trying to get to first base may not make your effort successful with the one who owns first base, second base, and home.
Once on first base with a shark, the shark will likely help you stay on first base.

Be careful of those who welcome the shark home. Yo may not want them to let you get to first base, second base, or home.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Robert A Cook PE for the ping.

[ETL]

Lol! That truck has some _____!

[SunkenCiv]

:^)