Monster Megalodon sharks grew 80 feet with sleek bodies built for speed to rule seas

Interesting Engineering ^ | March 10, 2025 | Mrigakshi Dixit

[gundog]

I watched a two pound trout charge a spinner a few days ago. Fish can move.

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

We would just be a snack for a fish that big!.....................

[SunkenCiv]

I’ll bet megalodon had no problem starting an apple.

[nesnah]

Megalodon would be a nice class name for new submarines.

[Red Badger]

You would think ancient people would have used these for spears & arrowheads!.....................

[SunkenCiv]

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[MtnClimber]

With mine, the black one is worn somewhat. Yhe gray one still has serrations on the edge.

[The Louiswu]

Oh yeah...well their gone now

[kruss3]

SEEMS LIKELY THAT PREDATION UPON YOUNG MEGLADONS BY THE VERY TALENTED COLLABORATIVE-TARGETED HUNTING BY ORCAS CAUSED THEIR EXTINCTION.

[kruss3]

SEEMS LIKELY THAT PREDATION UPON YOUNG MEGLADONS BY THE VERY TALENTED COLLABORATIVE-TARGETED HUNTING BY ORCAS CAUSED THEIR EXTINCTION.

[BenLurkin]

Megalodon Sally, she built for speed. She got everything that uncle John need.

[Eccl 10:2]

Many shark species engage in in utero cannibalism, where the unborn sharks eat each other until only one is left, and that one gets born. That one had plenty to eat in utero, so, they could get quite large before being born.

Newborn great white sharks are about 4–5 ft (1.2–1.5 m) long.

[MtnClimber]

I used to have 3 megaladon teeth. My room mate in college at Univ of Florida was a geology major and his girlfriend’s father worked for a phosphate mining company in Bartow, FL. We got passes several times to go searching the bottom of the open pit mines for shark teeth. I gave one of the teeth to my room mate because he wanted to give it as a gift to a geology associate.

[mewzilla]

If they ain’t, we’re really gonna need a bigger boat... 8-0

[gundog]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w6p6ZnKNFCk&pp=ygUZSmFja2Fzcywgc2d0aW1wIHVuZGVyd2Vhcg%3D%3D

[SaveFerris]

Did they have frickin’ laser beams attached to their foreheads?

[sauropod]

bkmk

[enumerated]

I guess tooth whitening products weren’t available back then.

[enumerated]

I do sharks have foreheads?