GbayGiant Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 These things would have ate your 20' boats like a topwater bait. Megalodon was an ancient shark that may have been 40 feet (12 m) long or even more. (There are a few scientists who estimate that it could have been up to 50 or 100 feet (15.5 or 31 m) long!) This is at least two or three times as long as the Great White Shark, but this is only an estimate made from many fossilized teeth and a few fossilized vertebrae that have been found. These giant teeth are the size of a person's hand! No other parts of this ancient shark have been found, so we can only guess what it looked like. Since Megalodon's teeth are very similar to the teeth of the Great White Shark (but bigger and thicker), it is thought that Megalodon may have looked like a huge, streamlined version of the Great White Shark. MEGALODON'S DIET Megalodon's diet probably consisted mostly of whales. Sharks eat about 2 percent of their body weight each day; this a bit less than a human being eats. Since most sharks are cold-blooded, they don't have to eat as much as we eat (a lot of our food intake is used to keep our bodies warm). TEETH AND JAWS Shark fossils are extremely rare because sharks have no bones, only cartilage, which does not fossilize well. Their teeth, however, are very hard. Their teeth are made of a bone-like material coated with hard enamel and they fossilize very well. Megalodon teeth are similar to those of the Great White Shark, but are much bigger, thicker, and with finer serrrations. Megalodon's jaws could open 6 feet (1.8 m) wide and 7 feet (2.1 m) high. The jaws were loosely attached by ligaments and muscles to the skull, opening extremely wide in order to swallow enormous objects. It could easily swallow a large Great White Shark whole! Like most sharks, Megalodon's teeth were probably located in rows which rotated into use as they were needed. Most sharks have about 3-5 rows of teeth at any time. The front set does most of the work. The first two rows are used for obtaining prey, the other rows rotate into place as they are needed. As teeth are lost, broken, or worn down, they are replaced by new teeth. Megalodon may have had hundreds of teeth at one time. It did not chew their food like we do, but gulped it down whole in very large chunks. WHEN MEGALODON LIVED Megalodon lived from roughly 25 to 1.6 million years ago, during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs. It is now extinct, but the exact time of its extinction is hotly debated. MEGALODON ANATOMY MEGALODON FOSSILS Fossilized Megalodon teeth up to 6.5 inches (17 cm) long have been found in Europe, India, Oceania (the general area around Australia including New Zealand, New Caledonia, etc.), North America, and South America. MEGALODON CLASSIFICATION Carcharodon megalodon was named by Agassiz in 1843. There is some debate as to whether megalodon was an ancestor of the Great White Shark or was an evolutionary dead end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddyk Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Thanks. Interesting read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lew Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Looks like some of the muskies that come into Marc Thorpes boat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Thorpe Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Lew if we ever get one that big,I"ll be holrering "Get the Gun" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazyhook Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 LOL @ the photoshop of the guys landing the fish Hey Lew get the Pliers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lew Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Hey Lew get the Pliers! Yeah, and maybe the jaw spreader too !!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggshen Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 We're gonna need a bigger boat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camillj Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 heh .. I am thinking .. megalo-knipex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GbayGiant Posted January 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 LOL. ya those two bottom photoshops are funny, but its just an idea of what we would be dealing with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntervasili Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 woudn't wanna share water with him... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemper Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 Thats one big fishy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazyhook Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 Lew I think he took the suick a bit deep... let me hold your legs so you can go in to get the hooks out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishindevil Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 thanks for the interesting read,and man are those teeth big ,that shark would prob eat a killer whale for breakfast...lol it would have been a better jaws movie if they had have used that shark instead.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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