Why did Megalodon go extinct? - Jack Cooper and Catalina Pimiento
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2023
- Dive into the ocean’s depths to see how the gigantic megalodon ruled the seas, and find out what caused its extinction.
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20 million years ago, the ocean housed a creature so colossal that its stomach could reach volumes of almost 10,000 liters- big enough to fit an entire orca. It was the megalodon, the biggest shark to ever live. So, what was it like when megalodon ruled the seas? And what brought this formidable predator to extinction? Jack Cooper and Catalina Pimiento investigate.
Lesson by Jack Cooper and Catalina Pimiento, directed by Vitalii Nebelskyi, and action creative agency.
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How unfortunate for Megalodon to have one of the contributing factors of its extinction basically being a miniature version of itself.
Not actually all that uncommon. Being large tends to be a mark against species when it comes to adaptability. They have effectively min maxed too hard into a niche, and if the niche is disrupted in any meaningful way... It usually means extinction.
@@TheEclecticDyslexicso you could say that megalodons min-maxed for the current meta to be the absolute best, then subsequent updates to the meta and the emergence of new playstyle threw them off into a decline until the playstyle eventually fell out of favor
@@Pibola64tierzoo viewer I see
The top of the food chain are usually the first to fall if any minor disruption occurs in the food chain.
@@TheEclecticDyslexic Min maxer when balance patch drops: Pikachu face
Respect of the person who made the thumbnail it's adorable
It really brings down the absolute terror of the megalodon, kinda glad they drew it cute and like an adorable sea cat
@@muak_kuaknah bro, that megaladon looks unnerving
I can hear it sings, baby megalodon do do do do. . .
@@muak_kuak fearing megalodon would be an irrational fear since Its extinct so your basically just getting scared by the thought of megalodon so Its better to make megalodon look less scary so we don't get megalonophobia💀
Megawodon
For those wondering who the Danish scientist mentioned in the intro is, he is Nicolas Steno. He did empirical, unbiased research which lead to the development of geology. Ted Ed has a video on him.
As in the "Steno museum"? Cool 😊
Guy invented Geology itself? Damn, that's impressive!
Megalodon has captured people's imagination for years and there's something intriguing about the idea of such a massive and powerful creature still roaming the depths of the ocean.
Believing Megalodon still exists is intelligent alien life levels of delusion
@@DJuuJ Intelligent alien life is statistically extremely likely. Megalodon is not...
@@DJuuJ we only know 5% of ocean I dunno which son of a god you are but I'm open to all hypothesis
@@NOOBCRASTINATOR69 Yeah no, there is a marine biologist with the channel named, AVNJ who debunked the Megalodon and why it can't live in the modern world. You are actually delusional.
@@NOOBCRASTINATOR69 1. We have mapped twice that at this point and 2. It is simply impossible for a Megalodon to survive, it doesn't have the space, nor the food.
Everyone knows that not only is the megalodon not extinct, but Jason Statham battles them daily to keep us safe (as shown in the documentary ‘The Meg’). Thank god for his noble actions.
Everybody knows Megalodons are extinct, and The Meg is not a documentary... It is based on true events of Hollwood appealing to the chinese market...😅
@@pdzombie1906 nah The Meg is a true story, everyone knows this
Finally someone actually knows his stuff
Jason Statham kills sharks? that immediately makes him a psychopath that wants the earth destroyed.
@@athinghere I didn’t say he kills them, merely that he battles them
As someone who's favorite animals are sharks (hence the profile picture),seeing you guys talk about the meg is an unexpected,yet definitly welcome surprise.
Welcome to the club 😊
@@sharknemesis5109 🫶
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
@@thewitchfindergeneral81 That's what I said.
@KingKong-dq6kj I don't know why but your profile picture made me laugh 😂 maybe cause it is like the shark has stepped on a Lego piece 😂.
This music is just perfect
And this is the first time I've seen a huggable megalodon.
We learn so many significant thoughts and knowledge from this channel. They’ve been the best.
Being so massive makes it much harder to adapt to rapid climate changes. Megalodons have been such a terrifying creatures and yet fragile in terms of survivability. If they were still here would have been scary though...
Sounds awful that megalodon became a victim of its massive bulk and high-calorie demand metabolism. I also read an article that suggested its prey, mainly migratory whales, were able to travel to the poles due to their insulating blubber. Megalodon wasn't able to regulate its body temperature efficiently enough to follow, which partially led to its extinction due to the abscence of prey.
i guess maybe it was too specialized to adapt to the new environment.
Ted ed never disappoints on the animation 😅
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@@andaction.agencyit's so cute
thank you very much@@envadeh 💞
no matter how many times you learn about the Megalodon, they will always impress you.
They went extinct due to the changes in water temperature as they survived in warmer water so as time went by the water went cold
this is amazing! i never thought about the reason behind megalodon's extinct and here the video gives the answer to me! the animation is super well done as always, but I want to applaud for the word selection that has been used in this video!! i enjoy it to the max!! amazing job as always❤
cbs eons also has a great video on this topic.
Thanks for noting the words. Animation easy to appreciate, but someone wrote the script and it is tight and packed with great info.
@@Nastyace2012 ohh i didnt know about the cbs eons yet. definitely will check it out soon! thank you for the suggestion! ^^
@@MrsJudithWright yepp!! i could say that i love poems and noticing how well chosen the words here is making me so amazed yet satisfied. also, they delivered just the right information with the words! love it to the max!!
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It's so sad that Megalodons died from Ligma
What's ligma
No one is going ask what that is
@@okay23478ligma balls
What are megalodons?
Amazing animation as always :)
I swear, I wouldn't know half as much stuff as I do if it weren't for this channel >:0
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I can't thank you enough!!! TEDEd team ❤ always so on point 🤗 I'm definitely going with more research about Megalodon ~
Imagine being such a predator that your extinction causes disturbance in the GLOBAL food chain and your prey species MULTIPLY in size and number. Man, what days they must've been! Wandering in the cetacean oceans. I wish they make a hyper realistic 3d vr game about it.
Humans are also predators of such global impact that we've disrupted multiple food chains simply by inventing malls & cold storage
Imagine how terrifying it would be to encounter a dunkleosteus in a vr game
@@acertainpigeonman9064depends on what game it is
Aren't people an example of such a predator? If we went extinct, the Anthropocene would end and Earth would be reshaped.
@@johndeorian6654 ye
I love the illustrations and animation work on this video. I find it superb! 🤩 Thanks for the hard work.
And this is why time travel to the past, if it existed, would prolly be the most profitable business ever. There's just so much in this world already, and so much was there, thrived and died before us. If only we got to see these magnificent creatures along with dinosaurs, and ancestors of rhe current animals with our own eyes, that would be such a wonderful experience.
Probably If we can Look into the past.
Not travel there.
Human biology isn't compatible with the various oxygen levels, climate of ancient earth.
Your lungs may collapse if you go to the mesozoic.
And ancient microbes will rip you apart as your immune system doesn't know how to fight them.
Just taking a peek is fine thank you.
It's also why it would probably be a short lived business like bitcoin. You really expect people who would be able to afford time travel wouldn't go, "Ok I want one of that, another one of that, & the snarliest one from those for my private zoo/stuffed toy collection. I'm paying, I'm getting my money's worth."
The way the world's headed, the 99.99% of humanity wouldn't be able to afford it.
Wow.. great video
Thank you Ted
I loved the narration! It made me feel like I was in some cheesy old detective show; a perfect fit for such a video
Isn't it crazy how a lot of the huge animals then, who we'd expect to last the longest, are now extinct. Meanwhile, cockroaches and rats have been here a long time and they ain't gone yet.
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And jellyfish
@@metal_pipe9764 Humans are killing their predators, such as turtles, which allows them to thrive. Some species are technically immortal, and they have become a bit of a nuissance.
People are actually obsessed with saying this thing is still alive
If they weren't done in by climate, I am sure one of the worst apex predators would have decimated the species... that predator being man. 💀
the shark went extinct 2 million years before humans existed •_•
I love the idea of shark week on TEDed❤
Ted-ed: we think need a bigger UA-cam channel
Great video!!! Thanx!!!
I like the Megalodon design for this video, it's so funny & cute looking 😊
Can't wait for the next prehistoric animal related video
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Nobody else gonna mention just how cute these meglodon animations are? I just want to hang out with them lol
*Qui-Gon Jinn: There’s always a bigger fish.*
*Me: There’s always a bigger shark!*
What an informative children's video. Well done, Ted-Ed.
Thank You Ted Ed
I love these ones so much 🙏
estou aprendendo inglês, e essas imagens junto ao vídeo me ajudam muito, e as legendas tem no meu idioma. Além de aprender curiosidades e histórias do mundo.
If I understand correctly, sharks are just muscle and cartilage, which doesn't fossilize, so all we have are a bunch of teeth. SO... how can we be so sure they were 60 feet long? Maybe they were the size of a bass, but with a huge head lined with big teeth.🤔
Some vertebrae and parts of the jaw were found too.
It's nice to see Nicholas Steno (Blessed Nicholas Steno) get the credit he's due for being one of history's greatest scientific geniuses
How ironic! Just few minutes ago I was searching for some information about Megladon,Then Teded uploaded a video about it😅❤
What's ironic about that?🤨
Very interesting as usual. Might I ask if it's possible to turn down that distracting background music in future videos though?
Admit it, we *all* wish they were still around.
Yes, the environment would be so much less filled with co2. It's complicated, this is the delicate balance of nature and it all links up.
Imagine all the shipwrecks
So no
Me 30 years from now trying to remake a Megalodon in my secret lab
I'd rather you recreate the dodo
What a coincidence as I have recently been collecting Megalodon teeth!😂
Where did you find them???? It's been my life long dream of 50 years to have one. I just have replicas. I'd give anything for one, or to find one!!! I've always been fascinated by the sheer size and power of the Meg. And...is it REALLY extinct??? There are still parts of the ocean unexplored.
@@WendiintoancientHistory I bought them from mineral/rock shops. Most cases, Les Minéraux, a gift shop in The Louvre (I live right next to Paris in France). Larger Complete Megalodon teeth cost over $1,000 while the broken fragmented Meg teeth of varied sizes that I purchase cost only $10. Unfortunately I have never found any shark teeth on the beaches.
Love this voice of ted ed british
Love that the megalodons are always smiling 😃.
am i the only one whose never heard of megaladon before😭 it’s sounds interesting though
SHERIFF BRODY: You're gonna need a bigger boat
JONAS TAYLOR: Just get out of the water
The animation is too cute!🤗💜👍
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We have these teeth all over this area in Venice, FL. I have a buddy who dives just a mile off-shore and hunts for them. He's collected over 1000 of them just himself over the past few years, some as large as 5" for a single tooth fully intact still.
Italian megolodon
He's trying to assemble one, the day of reckoning is soon
"Another generic comment complimenting the visual instead of the content"
I don’t want to sound like a stickler but I just think some people don’t understand what there talking about so they just say “hey cool art now I will never remember anything you said here” despite the concepts here being super simple
Never knew megalodon can be this cute
Megalodon goes extinct partly because of a smaller, and better version of itself....
*Older siblings' life in a Nutshell*
😁😂😭😢
It's a giant and cool-looking shark of course it would survive through all those extinction events, ignoring every other creature of the ancient seas.
Thank you!
Megalodon is extinct? Somebody better tell Discovery Channel!
It is very interesting to know that these giant animals existed
What would Megalodon's favourite food be today?
Fish 'n' ships!😂
The orcas have that covered.
@@fluffydruid3082orca chefs?!
The old and hungry megalodon with no teeth, looks very helpless😅
3:58, I actually felt very bad for it.
TED Ed, please reply 🙏 this is very off topic towards the video. I want to know if it's possible to 3D print plant cells or plants themselves. Can you make a video on it?
Please 🙏 reply!!!!!
OMG Purple and Green is Chort’s calling card.
thanks
Fun fact, Great White Sharks are getting bigger and bigger and some day may evolve into Megalodon-sized predators.
Yes, maybe it's because of the marrine mammals are bigger now
No, this will sadly never happen, they would probably go extinct. Because of movies about sharks, people start to misunderstand them, and those who kill them are hailed as heroes.
Sharks reproduce in mangrove swamps, which are getting destroyed because humans love replacing rare trees with infrastructure. Multiple coral reefs are destroyed, the fishing industry is polluting more than the entire human population in the western hemisphere, and people rejoice to hear that. What they do not know, is that with the extinctoin of sharks, the food chain would collapse, plants will die, the world loses 50% of its oxygen, the ocean loses all it's wildlife, all the animals on earth start breathing large amounts of carbon dyoxide, everything dies, you know, the usual appocalypse scenario.
Most definitely it's better for humanity not to be complacent, but remember, the Great White is 'vulnerable', not 'endangered', and hopefully never will be. Whale populations - on what any bigger shark would prey - generally speaking, have encouragingly rebounded swimmingly, pun intended, hehe.
Ok, now that I have researched enough, I will go and watch the movie
Do not. This movie is made by psychopaths who want the end of the world.
The animation of the smiling shark and the funny sound made me Remember the anime series called " DEATH MOUNT DEATH PLAY."
😂😂😂😂😂 . So funny.
2:24 mermaids are probably small snacks 😅 cool animation, always been fascinated by Megalodon and the fantastic creatures that lived million years ago.
Everyone talking about the megalodon meanwhile I just want to know where can I find the backround music jajaja its so catchy and cute
I respect ted ed
Hi Ted ed ❤
“It’s amazing how much we can learn about the life in the past by just looking at fossils.” - 8yo
how to add subtitle to this video?
The Shark animation made me want to pet a magladon sharks 🥺
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i love this music
Ughh!
How cute is Megladon!
Love da vids
I ❤ ted ed
Awesome music
Science is wild
ted ed: this is why megalodon went extinct
me: BIG SHARK GO BRRRRRRRRR
That Cenozoic beast of the ocean
Love your videos😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤
Banger
Great Mastodon song.
in loving memory of the mega blahaj
I was sure it was because the Cetothere playerbase was so dominate that it was Megalodon that was needed to counter them and when the cetotheres quit the game, the Megalodon lost its best matchup.
Interesting
Pretty art
I'm always in love with Megalodon. I wish I can have one as a pet and take it to walk everyday.
I need a plushie of this shark! 1:09
Megalodon: *exists*
Mini megalodon: _it's free real estate_
interesting
wow
*"Shut Up, Meg!"*
😂😂😂
Cool
Megalodons are basically the Battleship of the ocean
that sharks HUGE
My guess bro was too badass and too good for this world, i mean look at that thumbnail.
I don't know if there exists some big animals living in the deep ocean, like giant octopus, or not, ocean is very mysterious
nice
A lot of the hatred and fear people today have directed towards sharks is, in great part, to be blamed on Jaws
Fun Fact: The author of the original novel "Jaws" regrets how he portrayed sharks and decided to work as a shark conservationist.
@@jacobcox4565 Oh, now I regret calling him a psychopath who wants to see the world end. "I regret this portrayal and now I will work as an author conservationist."
3:36 Why is there a Plesiosaur?
Time travel?
It's obviously just a bunch of sea snakes roleplaying as a plesiosaur