Do a video on Livyatan (pronounced “lihv-yah-tan”)! Please, #KPassionate! General Paleontologists are one thing, but a marine biologist, with over 3651 days of experience, would be amazing!
There needs to be a caveat: we extrapolate the size and bite force of Megalodon from great white sharks but great white sharks and Megalodon are not really that closely related. While both are Lamniformes megalodons are from the extinct Otodontidae family while great white sharks are from the Lamnidae family. It is a bit like claiming you know the size of a human from a tooth you can compare to the tooth of an old world monkey. The teeth are actually quite a bit different, the jaws also seem to have some significant differences, and there are some pretty huge differences between both and intermediary species. Just saying, what 'we know' about megalodon is very over stated. What we have is educated guesses and not facts.
Ohh, 0:08 but great whites can almost grow double that size...... I have a news paper from 1936 of a 20+ foot great white being caught that was clear over a ton
My favorite bit of Megalodon science was the Livyatan fossil they found that had scars from a Meg attack-that is, evidence it *survived* the encounter! What a tank!
i sup that depends how u define survived .. first it has to survive the attack/bite, then the wound has to heal, third the torn muscles hafe to heal enugh to be usefull, and forth it has to be able hunt/eat .. now Sharks have a immune system, and obviously as most living things will stop bleeding from smaller wounds, now The Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology(IMET) Maryland has done research on immune response of sharks, and it seems infections that take other mammals weeks to combat, takes for sharks months .. a 100kg human can survive up to 3 months on just water(without water 1-2 weeks) ... so back to surviving, its quite possible for a large injured shark to survive for a very long time (many months atleast) without being able to eat, during that time the wounds and bone would begin to heal, a shark can lay absolutly still on the bottom of the ocean an breethe (its a myth thay cant) .. wether the shark healed enugh to be able feed itself is just a guess, either way the wound from a large shark would have healed to some extent.
Yeah, the trailers were crap nd the movie wasn't any better - the most absurd, because it was "real" was when "Meg" landed on the boat, and not only wasn't it sunk, but it didn't lose an inch of freeboard! I was shocked to see they made a sequel - maybe they needed some decent tax write-offs - or the domestic market is really that brain-dead!
Thank you for sorting fact from fiction. Nothing wrong with fiction, as long as it's not masquerading as facr. I do believe that we have many things to discover and understand about our planet, its occupants and the universe, but being fed fake information is not going to help us learn Thank you, KP.
@@ThatCarGuy1983 I am fairly confident that a pack of Orcas would shred even a Meg. Orcas have higher intelligence and pack-hunting. A meg might hurt 1 orca, but orcas are pack hunters. If I am not mistaken, 6-10 units or more. A meg wouldn't stand a chance.
@@ThatCarGuy1983Peace! A sperm whales sonar would stun a Meg a then its tail would smack a Meg into next year!!! Orcas & Sperm whales rule our Oceans..
@CherDiaz-sx4ro We've explored very little of the deep sea and the sea floor, for sure. This is VERY different from our constant exploration and commercial usage of the shallow, tropical waters where Megalodon lived. One thing I didn't mention in the video is that for Megalodon to still exist, there would need to be a sustainable population. We're talking thousands of them who would be breeding. And if there were thousands of Megalodons living in shallow, tropical waters that are heavily exploited through overfishing... then commercial fishing operations would ensure Megalodon would have been found and on plates throughout the globe. In 2017, a pound of Mako went for about $30 per pound. An average size Megalodon would bring in $3 million dollars at that price.
I’ve collected Meg teeth in California for 30 years from Santa Barbara to Bakersfield and this was the best information on this shark. I’ve collected 11 Meg teeth from 6” to 1/2” . Thank you
If the Megalodon evolved to adapt elsewhere... Then they would no longer be considered Megalodon LOL So even if they continued to evolve, they technically no longer "exist".
Because the 2 above comments, Megalodon is a single species in a genus and not the genus itself so it’s less of a bird v/s dinosaur case but more of a T.rex and T.Mccraensis but if T.mccraensis had large arms and small head opposite of a Tyrannosaurus, it wouldn’t be a species of Tyrannosaurus genus ( rex and mccraensis are both species of Tyrannosaurus genus) but would be another genus instead heck it would be part of a completely different family even potentially. So if meg evolved differently, it wouldn’t be Otodus Megalodon but would be another genus as a whole
A good friend of mine shared an experience he had about 30 years ago, off the coast of Florida. They had a 35 foot fishing boat, and had been shark fishing all day. Happy with the 7-8 sharks they caught, each weighing 600 to 700 lbs, tied to the side of the boat. It was just him and the captain on the boat. My friend said a very large shark meandered up along side them and consumed the entire first shark in one bite, and then the next one, and one by one, in just a minute or so, ate every one of their sharks. Over 4000 lbs of meat in one meal! like we would eat a few cheese crackers! He QUIT fishing THAT Day, and chose to never go on the water again. I asked him how long the shark was, and all he could tell me, was it was much longer than their boat and it scared the piss out of him even though, he was on the boat watching this completely horrified! He went into commercial maintenance following that and is happily still doing that today in Florida!
I was fishing south of Islamorada, FL a couple years ago. Summer. we saw a Great whit shark that was almost as long as the 32 foot boat. We all guessed it to be around 25 feet. Obviously, it didn't eat us. But we were not taking any chances, we moved to a different area. There was a LOT of other fish in the area of the shark. We were catching several fish before seeing this big shark.
@@KPassionate You are a first rate teacher and communicator. Please keep the same entertaining format. And, especially, don't use music; your videos don't need it! One person's music is another person's noise.
Lots of inaccuracy in this video. The biggest is thinking meg was just a scaled up great white. Perhaps some more research or sticking to what you know?
@@aislygncovante7524 no, because he's literally named "derp". but he IS correct that Megaladon was at best distantly related to the great white shark; completely different linneage. They did overlap as competitors for a while though.
@@aislygncovante7524 So the owner of the below UA-cam channel is the son of a shark biologist. He is also a paleontology student at university, in his own right. He has posted several videos about recent megalodon research, including research published this year discussing morphological differences from modern Carcharodon carcharias. ua-cam.com/video/OT9iFgrHIEo/v-deo.htmlsi=GiVYs8JBjcH1f-tU
"The scientific term for this idea is *fiction*." Great line that had me on the floor. Thanks for that video. Even if it won't convince someone who desperately wants to believe in Megalodons still being alive.
1:24 I think the most interesting thing about this is that humans first appeared 7 million years ago possibly longer, so some adventurous human could’ve possibly seen one.
You seriously got me with the bioluminescent Disco Megalodon - have still tears in my eyes from laughing! Beside this - a great videos about this topic - but I am afraid its still fighting windmills again in the world of the common human subspecies Homo sapiens "res repugnans" 😉🙃😁😁😁
What a great channel you have, I just love all the information true science scientists bring compared to what we got in the past from discovery and national geographic. 😅 long form and short form by true experts is just soooo awesome :)
Thoroughly enjoyed your video on the extinct Megalodon Shark. I subscribed to your channel due to this video. Looking forward to perusing more of your videos. 💪👃✨
Global cooling doomed the Meg not the killer whale!! I’ve dug in Bakersfield and Santa Barbara for 30 years and never found or heard of 1 killer whale fossil!!! Lastly bob earnst who dug shark tooth hill never found one orca bone!!!
I always like learning new stuff from this channel, she just makes learning soo easy and fun. My grandpa is a biologist for land animalsand he and he likes KPassionate I think.
Props to the ambitious photoshoppers, but Megalodon is fascinating enough as a long-extinct creature. Love to KP and Co, with a retro shout out to Wine & Wins from my Juggernaut Cab-induced Saturday night buzz.🍷🤓
Thank you for Setting the Record Straight!. I grew up in and around the water in Southern California. Spearfishing scuba diving surfing… There are lots of sharks but there are NO megalodons.
I am positive that makes you a small-minded and childish name-caller...with half a brain that fears anything you weren't spoon-fed from equally arrogant academia.
I think it's more about people not trusting government institutions to relay them truthful information. They hide information to protect their agenda, not saying meg is still out there but given the mind boggling volume of the ocean and the worlds governments ability to hide information and keep things covered up, there is some chance there are large unknown predatory sharks roaming the deep blue.
Coelecanth proves your ignorance @ evolutionary b's, & show us real, I mean real, not CGI, Photoshop b's from NASA, that proves earth's shape. Also the pigs tooth that was trumpeted for 40 years in a museum as evolutionary proof, 🤣😂🤣
Lindsay Nikole debunked the "Megalodon is still alive and living in the ocean trenches" claim pretty thoroughly. In addition to the points KP raises [ _what do they eat?!?!_ ], Lindsay presents evidence that the reason the Megalodon went extinct is _because their prey went extinct_ … their food source vanished. And thus, so did they.
Plot twist... Megladon was actually a small fish with very big teeth, they actually eat plancton, and would scare great whites away with its gaping smile...
Not to say Meg is still around, but diving off shore in Georgia we ran up on a barracuda that was about 20ft long. Impossible but the dive team all went into shock and most were experienced divers that reported they had never seen anything that size. I was face to face with it and the fish turned slowly and headed for deeper water. Trouble with this afterwards was the question do we really know how big is anything when it comes to the oceans.
Barracuda live in shallow waters & eat the fish around there. Also, I just looked it up & the biggest barracuda on record is 5.6 feet, so I’m calling bullsh*t on a barracuda 4 times bigger than the largest ever found, lol.
I was a Navy signalman. While crossing the Atlantic I spotted a shark that was protruding it mouth/ head out of the water. We thoaught it was a cabin cruiser in distress at 1st. At 1 1/2 miles i realized it was a shark. The shark swam down alongside our ship, so close i could take a measurement. The dorsal fin was protruding through the water about 6 feet high. The shark body was white and sleek , not like a great white. The nose was pointed, so not a whale shark. The measurements where that the shark was at least 60ft but more like 80ft. I say 60 atleast because i couldnt believe at the time it was 80. I thought surely i must be wrong. Im not saying it was a meg. I had not even heard of a meg at the time. Meg is just the clesest thing i can come close too. I have several oceanogrphers and alwayes met with skeptissism. Also it was about 40 wide. Fin to fin.
Yeah I dont give a shit what you think. I know what I saw. Many that day saw it. The key point is we didnt k ow how exceptio al it really was. I would like to knkw as well. If it was just a type of whale shar k then so be it. Dont be an ass all of your life brian go out and see stuff for youself.
i was a uniformed security officer in victoria bc 20 years ago i saw a bird in the sky i estimate at 2000 feet it had a 30 feet wingspan it moved like like it should except it was way to big i pointed it out to others around and everyone was baffled some say thunderbird
Barely 10 seconds had passed when I began watching this video and I mashed the Subscribe button. Once in a while a channel comes along that you just vibe with instantly. Riveted by this video and look forward to watching your others 🙂
WWII sonar tech wasn't capable of measuring the length of whatever signal was returned. Physics and electronics fact from a military history geek. Since the tech couldn't measure length, what you said cannot be a fact.
Guys, Megalodons where a group of sharks that lived in shallow waters and they hunted whales. The reason they went extinct is because their pray, whales, moved out into deeper, colder water which the megalodon was not adapted to living in.
Sorry to burst your bubble but, my ship, USS Tinosa SSN 606, recovered a 5" triangular shark tooth from a 1/2" sonar array cable. The incident occurred late July1982, North Atlantic near Greenland, depth 600 ft. During a patrol, we experienced sonar LOS. We retracted the sensor cable but cable jammed and would not move. In port, divers removed the 5" tooth and mistakenly identified it as Carcharodon carcharias (Great White for the distinctive triangular shape). The tooth was sent to NAVSEA 08, Adm. H. Rickover. The USN has since misplaced it. Many strange things have happen underwater in the North Atlantic that are classed as unidentified anomalies. Strange bumpings and loss of submarine acoustic tiles have occurred.
I've lived and worked in multiple states and countries with international coworkers who all pronounce things differently based on their regional dialect and native language. Many words are pronounced differently throughout the world.
@@KPassionate American Scientists obviously have their own special way that differs from every other English language country....🫤 My science has always come from the BBC.
While it is unlikely that they still exist in wouldn’t say they don’t. I mean we put so much emphasis on proof. But we didn’t even know how big a baby great white was when it was born until what 5 years ago maybe 10 and we still don’t know where they breed or what that looks like. I also keep seeing biologist say they max about at 15-16 ft but then there the exception of the 19.7 ft shark you mentioned and deep blue which was thought to be 21 ft last time she was seen. The. There was the white shark that was eaten almost entirely very quickly off the coast of Australia. It was over 10 ft long. Fish don’t generally succeed a eating prey larger than 1/3 their size so that would put the predatory shark at around 30 ft not 17 ft almost double size of the accepted max size of a great white. So ether there a shark out there we haven’t identified or Great whites get much larger than we want to accept but there seems to be something missing in the puzzle that biologists keep spinning here.
So given the size discrepancies and unknowns about great white sharks, do you think we should reconsider the maximum size limits that biologists have set?
Well young lady...You make science fun!..Keep posting,ps Im a diver and was thrilled to swim with sharks in my ocean adventures!! Im still alive so theyre not blood thirsty monsters!!
Orcas Caught On Film Eating Great White Sharks → ua-cam.com/video/SRdHMG7mQ90/v-deo.html
Do a video on Livyatan (pronounced “lihv-yah-tan”)! Please, #KPassionate! General Paleontologists are one thing, but a marine biologist, with over 3651 days of experience, would be amazing!
My ex is the greatest predator to ever exist , not megalodon or t-rex. 😂😅😊
There needs to be a caveat: we extrapolate the size and bite force of Megalodon from great white sharks but great white sharks and Megalodon are not really that closely related. While both are Lamniformes megalodons are from the extinct Otodontidae family while great white sharks are from the Lamnidae family. It is a bit like claiming you know the size of a human from a tooth you can compare to the tooth of an old world monkey. The teeth are actually quite a bit different, the jaws also seem to have some significant differences, and there are some pretty huge differences between both and intermediary species. Just saying, what 'we know' about megalodon is very over stated. What we have is educated guesses and not facts.
Tie raaan o saurus
Ohh, 0:08 but great whites can almost grow double that size......
I have a news paper from 1936 of a 20+ foot great white being caught that was clear over a ton
My favorite bit of Megalodon science was the Livyatan fossil they found that had scars from a Meg attack-that is, evidence it *survived* the encounter! What a tank!
i sup that depends how u define survived ..
first it has to survive the attack/bite, then the wound has to heal, third the torn muscles hafe to heal enugh to be usefull, and forth it has to be able hunt/eat ..
now Sharks have a immune system, and obviously as most living things will stop bleeding from smaller wounds, now The Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology(IMET) Maryland has done research on immune response of sharks, and it seems infections that take other mammals weeks to combat, takes for sharks months .. a 100kg human can survive up to 3 months on just water(without water 1-2 weeks) ... so back to surviving, its quite possible for a large injured shark to survive for a very long time (many months atleast) without being able to eat, during that time the wounds and bone would begin to heal, a shark can lay absolutly still on the bottom of the ocean an breethe (its a myth thay cant) .. wether the shark healed enugh to be able feed itself is just a guess, either way the wound from a large shark would have healed to some extent.
Really
That is so cool fr. Do you think the scars on the Livyatan fossil tell us something about the behavior of megalodon?
I want proof that the movie Meg was a Hollywood Blockbuster.
Ha!! Touché
Yeah, the trailers were crap nd the movie wasn't any better - the most absurd, because it was "real" was when "Meg" landed on the boat, and not only wasn't it sunk, but it didn't lose an inch of freeboard!
I was shocked to see they made a sequel - maybe they needed some decent tax write-offs - or the domestic market is really that brain-dead!
It was in cinemas world wide and made 4x the money back' next.....
@@paulsmyth3580
Neither of those mean it was a 'blockbuster" - what was the gross on it?
And it was still a god-awful movie!
Brilliant 😂😂
UA-cam is the only thing keeping Megalodon alive.
Ha! So true
@@KPassionate I hooked one in the Mississippi the other day.....
.......... *_Nahhhh_* (it was a Log)
Thank goodness. I need something to believe in 😂 🦈
Meg is forever meg is eternal
tiktok: am i a joke to you?
hollywood: yes you are lol
discovery channel: i'm an actual joke and i own it
"The scientific word for this is "fiction". I'm so going to use this 😂😂
Hahaha I made myself laugh pretty good
@@KPassionate It's academic scholar humour of the best kind 💯 😂
@@KPassionate I will use the sentence from now on, always .I know a bunch of people with whom I could use it very easily
I think she was dying to say bullsh*t.
Sadly I don't even take the word of a scientist talking about Megalodons at face value after Covid and Global Warming.
Thank you for sorting fact from fiction. Nothing wrong with fiction, as long as it's not masquerading as facr. I do believe that we have many things to discover and understand about our planet, its occupants and the universe, but being fed fake information is not going to help us learn Thank you, KP.
Crystal clear explanations, as usual, with a nice smile. Thank you very much.
Glad you liked it
This was awesome! I’d love to see a Leviathan video!
Finally a true life story of the Megalodon. Great video ❤
Glad you liked it!
Orca : Hold my Shark Liver
A megalodon would swallow an orca...
@@ThatCarGuy1983 I am fairly confident that a pack of Orcas would shred even a Meg.
Orcas have higher intelligence and pack-hunting. A meg might hurt 1 orca, but orcas are pack hunters. If I am not mistaken, 6-10 units or more. A meg wouldn't stand a chance.
@@emilsohn1671 They cannot win from a bull Spermwhale. Even in packs. So imo, orca's would not win against a Meg.
@@ThatCarGuy1983 Megalodon was slow. It would never catch an orca.
@@ThatCarGuy1983Peace! A sperm whales sonar would stun a Meg a then its tail would smack a Meg into next year!!! Orcas & Sperm whales rule our Oceans..
"No, there's not." That tickled me to no end.
Three distinct species of white shark? That's a video worth my time.
I would love to hear about them and also the giant Laviation or how ever you spell that giant Sperm Whales name that lived in Mag's time...
I don't understand why there are people out there who want a sea predator the size of a commuter bus to be alive today.
simple, to prove their theories right
If there ARE, wouldn't you want to prove it??
They find teeth, so it's possible considering the tiny fraction we've studied the now plastic ocean.
Weil ihnen langweilig ist. Monster machen das Leben interessanter.
Why nor. We have only explored 1/3rd of the ocean..
@CherDiaz-sx4ro We've explored very little of the deep sea and the sea floor, for sure. This is VERY different from our constant exploration and commercial usage of the shallow, tropical waters where Megalodon lived. One thing I didn't mention in the video is that for Megalodon to still exist, there would need to be a sustainable population. We're talking thousands of them who would be breeding. And if there were thousands of Megalodons living in shallow, tropical waters that are heavily exploited through overfishing... then commercial fishing operations would ensure Megalodon would have been found and on plates throughout the globe. In 2017, a pound of Mako went for about $30 per pound. An average size Megalodon would bring in $3 million dollars at that price.
I’ve collected Meg teeth in California for 30 years from Santa Barbara to Bakersfield and this was the best information on this shark. I’ve collected 11 Meg teeth from 6” to 1/2” . Thank you
Good job! Very informative and enjoyable. Funny how 'seeing it on TV' can force you to prove extinct species don't exist. Keep up the good work.
Thank you!
The Meg is a terrifically entertaining movie. All of the visuals look r so real. Great acting
Great video! Great fish story!???? KP you make very informative marine biology videos.
Thanks
I’m glad you like them!
"Bioluminescent megalodon would be terrifying!"
Someone hasn't played Ark enough!
If the Megalodon evolved to adapt elsewhere... Then they would no longer be considered Megalodon LOL So even if they continued to evolve, they technically no longer "exist".
Neanderthal DNA is alive and well in Homo Sapiens.
Why are there still monkeys then?
Birds are evolved dinosaurs and still are dinosaurs
@@tangoshowcast fair point. Except there is only one example. If humans are monkeys why are there two living examples?
Because the 2 above comments, Megalodon is a single species in a genus and not the genus itself so it’s less of a bird v/s dinosaur case but more of a T.rex and T.Mccraensis but if T.mccraensis had large arms and small head opposite of a Tyrannosaurus, it wouldn’t be a species of Tyrannosaurus genus ( rex and mccraensis are both species of Tyrannosaurus genus) but would be another genus instead heck it would be part of a completely different family even potentially. So if meg evolved differently, it wouldn’t be Otodus Megalodon but would be another genus as a whole
A good friend of mine shared an experience he had about 30 years ago, off the coast of Florida. They had a 35 foot fishing boat, and had been shark fishing all day. Happy with the 7-8 sharks they caught, each weighing 600 to 700 lbs, tied to the side of the boat. It was just him and the captain on the boat. My friend said a very large shark meandered up along side them and consumed the entire first shark in one bite, and then the next one, and one by one, in just a minute or so, ate every one of their sharks. Over 4000 lbs of meat in one meal! like we would eat a few cheese crackers! He QUIT fishing THAT Day, and chose to never go on the water again. I asked him how long the shark was, and all he could tell me, was it was much longer than their boat and it scared the piss out of him even though, he was on the boat watching this completely horrified! He went into commercial maintenance following that and is happily still doing that today in Florida!
Seeing mainstream channels running mockumentaries is even more heartbreaking than when MTV stopped playing music videos.
I agree!
Stunning. Also the info was great ❤
Thanks!!
I was fishing south of Islamorada, FL a couple years ago. Summer. we saw a Great whit shark that was almost as long as the 32 foot boat. We all guessed it to be around 25 feet. Obviously, it didn't eat us. But we were not taking any chances, we moved to a different area. There was a LOT of other fish in the area of the shark. We were catching several fish before seeing this big shark.
Very informative video. A Leviathan video would be fantastic, Thank You for posting.
Prehistoric whales coming right up!
Livyatan
A bioluminescence megalodon could be the next shark movie
good idea
Roll on Megalodonado parts 1, 2 & 3, succeeded by Bioluminescence Megalodonado, and Bioluminescence Megalodonado's from Mars...
Thanks for this informative and entertaining video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hey KP, as always your videos are very informative and interesting. Lady your fantastic, love your work.
Thank you kindly!
Great video!!! 👍
Thanks so much!
This channel is great, thanks!
Glad you enjoy it!
@@KPassionate You are a first rate teacher and communicator. Please keep the same entertaining format. And, especially, don't use music; your videos don't need it! One person's music is another person's noise.
PLEASE DO LIVYATAN!!!
that is one crazy monster and it deserves as much, if not more, exposure than the meg!
I want to do one! The trick will be finding a roll of an animal long extinct hahaha
Excellent. No BS
Yes, please do a leviathan video.
Lots of inaccuracy in this video. The biggest is thinking meg was just a scaled up great white. Perhaps some more research or sticking to what you know?
Can you suggest resources that might set the mistakes straight? I love coming across more info.
@@aislygncovante7524 no, because he's literally named "derp". but he IS correct that Megaladon was at best distantly related to the great white shark; completely different linneage. They did overlap as competitors for a while though.
@@thomasneal9291 Hrm. Now I have something neat to look up.
Thanks, folks!
😂"No, because he's literally named derp" 👏🏼@@thomasneal9291
@@aislygncovante7524 So the owner of the below UA-cam channel is the son of a shark biologist. He is also a paleontology student at university, in his own right. He has posted several videos about recent megalodon research, including research published this year discussing morphological differences from modern Carcharodon carcharias.
ua-cam.com/video/OT9iFgrHIEo/v-deo.htmlsi=GiVYs8JBjcH1f-tU
Hey there, thanks for the video. It’s nice to see the facts once in a while. I love your presentation style too. I’m going to subscribe
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Loved the video
Thanks!
Thnx for sharing your knowledge! Your enthousiasm is fun to watch :-)
Thanks for watching!
“Hello My name is Bruce” 😁😁😁
Ha!
Love your voice, I can listen to you talk all day.
Thank you!
"The scientific term for this idea is *fiction*."
Great line that had me on the floor.
Thanks for that video. Even if it won't convince someone who desperately wants to believe in Megalodons still being alive.
Hahaha glad you liked it! Many will hate it I’m sure 🤷♀️
Clever and funny really good and informative video !
1:24 I think the most interesting thing about this is that humans first appeared 7 million years ago possibly longer, so some adventurous human could’ve possibly seen one.
Terrifying…
@@KPassionatetruly. Interesting through the screen though!
Very nice and comprehensive video !!
You seriously got me with the bioluminescent Disco Megalodon - have still tears in my eyes from laughing!
Beside this - a great videos about this topic - but I am afraid its still fighting windmills again in the world of the common human subspecies Homo sapiens "res repugnans" 😉🙃😁😁😁
What a great channel you have, I just love all the information true science scientists bring compared to what we got in the past from discovery and national geographic. 😅 long form and short form by true experts is just soooo awesome :)
that discovery channel show was a tipping point for me to get rid of cable due to all the crap on tv
It infuriates me too!
Thoroughly enjoyed your video on the extinct Megalodon Shark. I subscribed to your channel due to this video. Looking forward to perusing more of your videos. 💪👃✨
Thanks for the subscription! Glad you enjoyed it.
Yah, megalodon "ruled the sea" until... orca evolved. Then suddenly the meg was gone. This is not a coincidence.
Global cooling doomed the Meg not the killer whale!! I’ve dug in Bakersfield and Santa Barbara for 30 years and never found or heard of 1 killer whale fossil!!! Lastly bob earnst who dug shark tooth hill never found one orca bone!!!
I always like learning new stuff from this channel, she just makes learning soo easy and fun. My grandpa is a biologist for land animalsand he and he likes KPassionate I think.
What a lovely compliment! Thanks!
Props to the ambitious photoshoppers, but Megalodon is fascinating enough as a long-extinct creature. Love to KP and Co, with a retro shout out to Wine & Wins from my Juggernaut Cab-induced Saturday night buzz.🍷🤓
Ha!!!! You are an OG!
Thank you for Setting the Record Straight!. I grew up in and around the water in Southern California. Spearfishing scuba diving surfing… There are lots of sharks but there are NO megalodons.
That Megalodon Lives mocumentary made me cancel my subscription to discovery channel, it was so dishonest.
It’s so enraging!
@@KPassionate thanks for making your type of content
Thank you for using the correct scientific term for this subject.
I'm pretty sure that the people who believe that Megalodon still exists, are the same people who believe that the earth is flat!
I am positive that makes you a small-minded and childish name-caller...with half a brain that fears anything you weren't spoon-fed from equally arrogant academia.
Nope earth is round we can see it. Can you see god? I cant, no one can 😂
@@epposcrap God is spirit, that is one reason why. The majority of Christians know the earth is round, you're taking about a minority.😃
I think it's more about people not trusting government institutions to relay them truthful information. They hide information to protect their agenda, not saying meg is still out there but given the mind boggling volume of the ocean and the worlds governments ability to hide information and keep things covered up, there is some chance there are large unknown predatory sharks roaming the deep blue.
Coelecanth proves your ignorance @ evolutionary b's, & show us real, I mean real, not CGI, Photoshop b's from NASA, that proves earth's shape. Also the pigs tooth that was trumpeted for 40 years in a museum as evolutionary proof, 🤣😂🤣
Awesome job, happy to be a new follower.
Glad to have you!
Apparently a megaladon was spotted at a p diddy party
@@frankiekl87 😂
Here's what I think about this video. This is a breath of fresh air! Within 3 minutes of listening to you I subscribed.
That’s a great compliment! Thank you so much.
Lindsay Nikole debunked the "Megalodon is still alive and living in the ocean trenches" claim pretty thoroughly. In addition to the points KP raises [ _what do they eat?!?!_ ], Lindsay presents evidence that the reason the Megalodon went extinct is _because their prey went extinct_ … their food source vanished. And thus, so did they.
Or ocean cooling... Or both I guess.
@@christinechapman9764 I don't remember what Lindsay Nicole said in regards to ocean temperatures.
Plot twist... Megladon was actually a small fish with very big teeth, they actually eat plancton, and would scare great whites away with its gaping smile...
I love this girl. Thank you for making sense.
Thanks for watching!
Lots of theories, no evidence.
Good and entertaining video. As much as I wish they could exist, I agree with you on all points.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Not to say Meg is still around, but diving off shore in Georgia we ran up on a barracuda that was about 20ft long. Impossible but the dive team all went into shock and most were experienced divers that reported they had never seen anything that size. I was face to face with it and the fish turned slowly and headed for deeper water. Trouble with this afterwards was the question do we really know how big is anything when it comes to the oceans.
Interesting
Barracuda live in shallow waters & eat the fish around there. Also, I just looked it up & the biggest barracuda on record is 5.6 feet, so I’m calling bullsh*t on a barracuda 4 times bigger than the largest ever found, lol.
And of course you all left your cameras on the boat...😂
No cameras at that depth at that time.
Thanks for keeping this honest!
It's like bigfoot. No scat, no remains, no nothing.
thank you that was bad ass great work love it
Glad you thought it was awesome!
I was a Navy signalman. While crossing the Atlantic I spotted a shark that was protruding it mouth/ head out of the water. We thoaught it was a cabin cruiser in distress at 1st. At 1 1/2 miles i realized it was a shark. The shark swam down alongside our ship, so close i could take a measurement. The dorsal fin was protruding through the water about 6 feet high. The shark body was white and sleek , not like a great white. The nose was pointed, so not a whale shark. The measurements where that the shark was at least 60ft but more like 80ft. I say 60 atleast because i couldnt believe at the time it was 80. I thought surely i must be wrong. Im not saying it was a meg. I had not even heard of a meg at the time. Meg is just the clesest thing i can come close too. I have several oceanogrphers and alwayes met with skeptissism. Also it was about 40 wide. Fin to fin.
of course it was
Yeah I dont give a shit what you think. I know what I saw. Many that day saw it. The key point is we didnt k ow how exceptio al it really was. I would like to knkw as well. If it was just a type of whale shar k then so be it. Dont be an ass all of your life brian go out and see stuff for youself.
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i was a uniformed security officer in victoria bc 20 years ago i saw a bird in the sky i estimate at 2000 feet it had a 30 feet wingspan it moved like like it should except it was way to big i pointed it out to others around and everyone was baffled some say thunderbird
Barely 10 seconds had passed when I began watching this video and I mashed the Subscribe button. Once in a while a channel comes along that you just vibe with instantly. Riveted by this video and look forward to watching your others 🙂
Wow that is such a lovely compliment! I’m happy you’re here. Welcome in!
@@KPassionate Thank you, your presentation style is next level. I'm just soaking in the knowledge you're giving out 🙂 🌏
the US navy measured a shark at 85 ft on sonar during WW2...military fact.
Not true. WW2 sonar could measure distance to a target up to about 2500 yards. It could not estimate the size of the target.
False
WWII sonar tech wasn't capable of measuring the length of whatever signal was returned. Physics and electronics fact from a military history geek. Since the tech couldn't measure length, what you said cannot be a fact.
"military fact". well, technically correct, since the military is rarely preoccupied with factual information.
I think this video is the saddest on UA-cam. We need the Meg.
Thank you, very informative.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Guys, Megalodons where a group of sharks that lived in shallow waters and they hunted whales. The reason they went extinct is because their pray, whales, moved out into deeper, colder water which the megalodon was not adapted to living in.
you must be pretty old to know all that or you have a time machine 😂😅
Excellent video!
Sorry to burst your bubble but, my ship, USS Tinosa SSN 606, recovered a 5" triangular shark tooth from a 1/2" sonar array cable. The incident occurred late July1982, North Atlantic near Greenland, depth 600 ft. During a patrol, we experienced sonar LOS. We retracted the sensor cable but cable jammed and would not move. In port, divers removed the 5" tooth and mistakenly identified it as Carcharodon carcharias (Great White for the distinctive triangular shape). The tooth was sent to NAVSEA 08, Adm. H. Rickover. The USN has since misplaced it. Many strange things have happen underwater in the North Atlantic that are classed as unidentified anomalies. Strange bumpings and loss of submarine acoustic tiles have occurred.
so no tooth.. nice story
I am curious, why do you refer to the Tinosa as a 'ship'?
Nothing about this "bursts my bubble" 😂
Nice video.
What about that oil rig video from a few years ago showing a massive shark-like fish about 60 feet long swimming by?
It was proven fake
A bioluminescent meg would be terrifying, but also pretty amazing. Sharks are such cool creatures!
Megalodon was three feet long with one giant tooth.
Ha! This is the best comment I have ever seen! Thank you 😂
Thanks for shedding
truth about the megladon legend. Can u do something about Bigfoot?
I usually do marine biology stuff unfortunately! Land animals are not my forte
What if the bigfoot was swimming 🤔
0:36- Wrong! Megalodon are Not closely related to Great White Sharks. Please correct this and don’t mislead people in the future.
Let's not even start with her mispronouncing EVERY single scientific word.....🫤
Shut up
I've lived and worked in multiple states and countries with international coworkers who all pronounce things differently based on their regional dialect and native language. Many words are pronounced differently throughout the world.
@@KPassionate American Scientists obviously have their own special way that differs from every other English language country....🫤
My science has always come from the BBC.
@edwardfletcher7790 I spent most of my career in Canada.
Great info 👍
Thanks!
While it is unlikely that they still exist in wouldn’t say they don’t. I mean we put so much emphasis on proof. But we didn’t even know how big a baby great white was when it was born until what 5 years ago maybe 10 and we still don’t know where they breed or what that looks like. I also keep seeing biologist say they max about at 15-16 ft but then there the exception of the 19.7 ft shark you mentioned and deep blue which was thought to be 21 ft last time she was seen. The. There was the white shark that was eaten almost entirely very quickly off the coast of Australia. It was over 10 ft long. Fish don’t generally succeed a eating prey larger than 1/3 their size so that would put the predatory shark at around 30 ft not 17 ft almost double size of the accepted max size of a great white. So ether there a shark out there we haven’t identified or Great whites get much larger than we want to accept but there seems to be something missing in the puzzle that biologists keep spinning here.
So given the size discrepancies and unknowns about great white sharks, do you think we should reconsider the maximum size limits that biologists have set?
KP you have a pleasant voice, well done
The earth is only about 6000 years old so these critters did not live millions of years ago. Some are alive today.
Laughably childish comment
@@KPassionateI would say troll but these days who knows? A lot of stupid people out there.
This video seems to be attracting the "earth is flat and young" crowd unfortunately 😂
@@The_end_is_near-c8j willful ignorance
Great video nothing but facts.👍
You are right for existence of Megalodon, ,👍
Thanks, nicely done.
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video on the megalodon. Thankyou, your facts make more sense than Meg in the deep.
Best comment ever ...'scientific word for this is fiction'! Great video too.
Great job. Thank you.
Well asserted. Keep it up 👍
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Well that sucks, so what's next You're going to tell me that Santa Claus isn't real too? You couldn't let us have the megalodon
Santa Clause is real. Ive seen him.
That was awesome, Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Well young lady...You make science fun!..Keep posting,ps Im a diver and was thrilled to swim with sharks in my ocean adventures!! Im still alive so theyre not blood thirsty monsters!!
Well done. Liked!
Excellent vid.
You're awesome, thank you 😊
Yes, a bioluminescent Meg would be terrifying. I dated a Meg, once. Bioluminescence would have made her.. more terrifying. I'm subscribing.
Thanks for the illumination.
Awesome video. Thank you for the truth.
You're welcome!
Great episode for Halloween