Who discovered the megalodon? Is there a megalodon in the world

The strongest killer, starting from the teeth, the megalodon is the strongest killer that has ever appeared on the planet, but they have been extinct for a long time. How do we know about the existence of such an animal? It all starts with its teeth.

Megalodon means big tooth in Greek. In fact, as early as the Renaissance, people found some huge triangular tooth fossils in marine sedimentary strata, such a large tooth must belong to the legendary evil dragon or giant snake!

Today we will take you to the Baja Desert in Mexico to find the secrets of prehistoric killers! The megalodon is the largest and most popular predator in the world, so who is the culprit behind the extinction of this prehistoric giant? Can the fossilized teeth of a megalodon found in the desert help us find out?

In 2010, paleontologists from Swansea University in Wales, England, led a team of researchers to discover the presence of sawtooth sharks off the coast of Panama.

Because sharks are cartilaginous fishes, it is difficult to leave fossils on ordinary bone parts, so as of 2013, only some of its palm-sized triangular teeth and a few vertebrae have been found. Adult megalodon teeth are generally 10-16 cm long and more than 18 cm long, which is several times longer than the teeth of great white sharks. Although no complete fossil of the upper and lower jaws has been found, scientists have calculated that the shark is about 20 meters in size, weighs about 90 tons, and has a mouth with a large mouth that can reach a diameter of one meter.

Paleontologists speculate based on the fossils of the megalodon that the size of the megalodon is likely to be more than 20 meters, and the bite force is even more amazing, which can reach 20 tons, which is much stronger than the Tyrannosaurus rex, and is the strongest bite found in the history of the earth, which can easily bite the ribs of whales. So bite the whale in two in one bite.

The discovery in the sentence is what one discovers during a catch.

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The megalodon (scientific name: Carcharodon Megalodon), a porpoline of the family Porposidae, is one of the largest predators in history. [1] Megalodons are strong, streamlined, with an average length of 16 meters, the largest of which lived about 28 million to 1.5 million years ago and became extinct.

Insight into the base cavity. But it is already extinct.

Megalodon at Fragrant Hills Gardens.

This one doesn't exist.

The mouth of the megalodon can be up to two meters in diameter and has a strong, streamlined body.

Megalodons can hunt any creature in the sea, but they prefer to hunt cetaceans the most. Other marine mammals are also on its plate.

Adult toothed sharks hunt in the open ocean, while juveniles live closer to offshore. Megalodons attack animals that ventilate at the surface of the sea.

Extinction theory

It has been theorized that since the megalodon mainly feeds on cetaceans, the water at the poles is too cold for megalodon to survive, so the whales can escape the predation of megalodon, causing the megalodon to become extinct due to lack of food.

Other explanations suggest that any impact on the food chain (about 1.5 million years ago, the Earth's water cycle changed, upwelling decreased, large numbers of cetaceans died due to lack of food, and there were fewer diverse whale species) would be eliminated by predators with huge metabolic demands. However, a few scientists have pointed out that the megalodon is still extinct and is still alive today.

There have been many reports of the sightings of megalodons, and after examination, they have mistaken large sharks such as basking sharks and whale sharks for megalodons. The reason for its extinction is speculated to be due to the fact that about 1.5 million years ago, the earth's water cycle changed, upwelling decreased, a large number of whales died due to lack of food, and the variety of whale species decreased, and the megalodon could not find enough food and gradually became extinct.

At that time, we humans had already evolved, and our ancestors were already in the stage of Homo erectus (evolved 1.8 million years ago), but unfortunately our ancestors did not develop the means to make transportation to the sea at that time, so in the short 500,000 years that humans and megalodons existed, our ancestors did not witness the terrifying kingly demeanor of megalodons.