I was gifted half of a megalodon tooth fossil in kindergarten. I still have it, and it is a treasured heirloom. If that shark was alive, I'd know too. I was in the US Navy for several years, and never saw one.
Great video and paleontology humor. One thing you said at the end seemed to be an out-of-date concept about the extinction of megalodon, however. Based on the most recent papers that I have seen, as well as the fact that sharks this large would have probably had some type of regional endothermy (like modern great white sharks, for example), it seems unlikely that the global cooling at the end of the Pliocene had a major role to play in megalodon's extinction. As you mention here, it was more likely due to a decrease in baleen whale diversity at that time, as well as new marine predators that it had to compete with. This is me just being nit-picky though, and maybe some other recent paper has come out that says otherwise and I haven't seen it yet.
I was given a Megalodon Shark Tooth. As a young boy it was partially broken. Missing 1/4 along one side. The shear size of the fossilized tooth was amazing. Jet black on top and brownish on the root. I wonder if this tooth broke whilst the Megalodon attacked its prey? 💪🏻🙏🏻🎉
Wouldn't Megalodon have to change considerably to be able to survive in current times? Put together all that we know about the monster shark and the idea of it surviving today doesn't make sense at least not to me.
Basically even IF a shark somehow evolved to live really deep down and survive eating squid or whatever it would have to have evolved and changed so much that it wouldn't be a Megalodon anyway. (But I am not saying that these totally theoretical giant sharks are real. They are not.)
Dino - gen, according to you who would win in a solo deathbattle most of the times between a 67 feet 114 ton meg and 57 feet 62 ton livyatan? If it is difficult to say who wins then who has slightly advantage over other in solo??
major Sperm Whale disrespect largest modern estimates Ive seen of Megalodon is 20m, whereas there are reasons to believe Sperm Whales may have been 24+ meters before hunting of them began. for some reason Livyatan gets mentioned despite the fact that modern Sperm Whales were larger than Livyatan.
Interesting how over the years how it's name has been changed over the years as we have discovered more about it. In that case, why is Basilosaurus still called Basilosaurus?
The rules of taxonomy are a funny one. Megaodon has changed name because it was re-assigned to various different genera that already existed because it had enough similarities, whereas Basilosaurus was given a completely new genus because it was and still is different enough from anything else to justify its own genus. The fact that it is no longer considered even close to a lizard is confusingly irrelevant, first name just gets dibs. Hope this helps!
Perucetus is also Macropedator though. And its on average way larger than the largest megalodon hiperball estimation. Sure it wouldn't beat Meg, but it still way bigger than Meg😅
Thank you for the feedback, realised within the videos coming out this week that my particular mic doesn't sync very well with the editing software I'm now using, but it's getting better every video!
Perucetus: am i joke to you. Also lets be honest. Even though Perucetus cannot beat Megalodon and Livyatan etc. It was defnetly bigger than even what you calling Yellowstone hyperpredator. Yellowstone Hyperpredator documents are not even revealed yet. So until March17 2024. Megalodon is probably the strongest official ocean mega predator at the moment. As for biggest ocean apex predator. Yellowstone Hyperpredator is smaller than Perucetus😅
I was gifted half of a megalodon tooth fossil in kindergarten. I still have it, and it is a treasured heirloom. If that shark was alive, I'd know too. I was in the US Navy for several years, and never saw one.
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Great video and paleontology humor. One thing you said at the end seemed to be an out-of-date concept about the extinction of megalodon, however. Based on the most recent papers that I have seen, as well as the fact that sharks this large would have probably had some type of regional endothermy (like modern great white sharks, for example), it seems unlikely that the global cooling at the end of the Pliocene had a major role to play in megalodon's extinction. As you mention here, it was more likely due to a decrease in baleen whale diversity at that time, as well as new marine predators that it had to compete with. This is me just being nit-picky though, and maybe some other recent paper has come out that says otherwise and I haven't seen it yet.
There's something fishy here ....
I was given a Megalodon Shark Tooth. As a young boy it was partially broken. Missing 1/4 along one side. The shear size of the fossilized tooth was amazing. Jet black on top and brownish on the root. I wonder if this tooth broke whilst the Megalodon attacked its prey? 💪🏻🙏🏻🎉
For a moment there I was afraid you'd caved and bought a greenscreen and we would never see your living room again.
A: what's the giant shark that lived in england?
B: Megalondon
*ba-dum-tss*
(suddenly imagining megalodon falling from the sky above london)
If Megalodon survived later than previously thought, then they must have evolved into a different species
Wouldn't Megalodon have to change considerably to be able to survive in current times? Put together all that we know about the monster shark and the idea of it surviving today doesn't make sense at least not to me.
Lol... Common sense you have
Basically even IF a shark somehow evolved to live really deep down and survive eating squid or whatever it would have to have evolved and changed so much that it wouldn't be a Megalodon anyway.
(But I am not saying that these totally theoretical giant sharks are real. They are not.)
Dad jokes are awesome, muy guy. Don’t be ashamed of it.
Dino - gen, according to you who would win in a solo deathbattle most of the times between a 67 feet 114 ton meg and 57 feet 62 ton livyatan? If it is difficult to say who wins then who has slightly advantage over other in solo??
Love the scale model diagrams to show how big these guys were alongside a human.
Top 20 largest theropod dinosaurs ( January 2024)
1. Tyrannosaurus rex~ 10.4 tonnes 🥇
2. Giganotosaurus~ 10.2 tonnes 🥈
3. Mcraeencis ~ 8.8 tonnes 🥉
4. Mapusaurus~ 8.4 tonnes 🏅
5. Deinocheirus~ 8.4 tonnes
6. Spinosaurus~ 8.3 tonnes
7. Saurophaganax~ 8.3 tonnes
8. Carcharodontosaurus~ 8.2 tonnes
9. Sauroniops~ 7.6 tonnes
10. Tyrannotitan~ 7.4 tonnes
11. Bahariasaurus~ 7.1 tonnes
12. Alamotyrannus~ 6 tonnes
13. Zhuchengtyrannus~ 5.8 tonnes
14. Titanovenator~ 5.74 tonnes
15. Meraxes gigas~ 5.7 tonnes
16. Acrocanthosaurus~ 5.7 tonnes
17. Torvosaurus~ 5.5 tonnes
18. Therizinosaurus~ 5.5 tonnes
19. Suchomimus~ 5.4 tonnes
20. Prodeinodon~ 5.4 tonnes
Could you make a video on the Weirdest Shark i have ever seen? Its name is edestus
major Sperm Whale disrespect
largest modern estimates Ive seen of Megalodon is 20m, whereas there are reasons to believe Sperm Whales may have been 24+ meters before hunting of them began.
for some reason Livyatan gets mentioned despite the fact that modern Sperm Whales were larger than Livyatan.
Sperm whales not even macropredators. Megalodon upper estimates 24 meters and 164 metric tons.
This 🦈 never exit
Ive always thought that Meg looked more like a tiger shark or Mako
These continual thumbnails are hilarious.....Orcas would annihilate a Megaladon.
What amount of calories would this beast need? Wow
I can't remember whether its the imperial or metric system that uses the measurement 'a f*ck ton'...
When are you carpet baggers finally produce one?
Jimmy saville might have something to say about that…
Interesting how over the years how it's name has been changed over the years as we have discovered more about it. In that case, why is Basilosaurus still called Basilosaurus?
The rules of taxonomy are a funny one. Megaodon has changed name because it was re-assigned to various different genera that already existed because it had enough similarities, whereas Basilosaurus was given a completely new genus because it was and still is different enough from anything else to justify its own genus. The fact that it is no longer considered even close to a lizard is confusingly irrelevant, first name just gets dibs. Hope this helps!
Megalodon the biggest macropredator that ever lived.
Perucetus is also Macropedator though. And its on average way larger than the largest megalodon hiperball estimation.
Sure it wouldn't beat Meg, but it still way bigger than Meg😅
Perucetus victim
Audio not as good as previous videos, FYI
Thank you for the feedback, realised within the videos coming out this week that my particular mic doesn't sync very well with the editing software I'm now using, but it's getting better every video!
Yellowstone hyperpredator: Am I a joke to you?
Perucetus: am i joke to you.
Also lets be honest. Even though Perucetus cannot beat Megalodon and Livyatan etc. It was defnetly bigger than even what you calling Yellowstone hyperpredator.
Yellowstone Hyperpredator documents are not even revealed yet. So until March17 2024. Megalodon is probably the strongest official ocean mega predator at the moment.
As for biggest ocean apex predator. Yellowstone Hyperpredator is smaller than Perucetus😅
@@timexyemerald6290 Yellowstone hyperpredator is 130-205 metric tons perucetus is only about 75-95 tons.