Giant Monsters Roaming the Ocean

Seawater covers almost 70% of the earth’s surface. Early underwater predators were big and fast. Predators known as Megalodon roamed the depths of the sea millions of years ago. The great white shark has survived for more than 10 million years. It is the ultimate ocean’s predator today. Compared to Megalodon great white is a dwarf. With both sharks, cartilage is the balsa wood of the body, it is the flexible component in their body structure. They are held together with organic fibers. These organic fibers quickly decompose when a shark dies. This makes it difficult to find any full skeleton structures of sharks. In a shark skeleton there are only two components that survive. The first one is the teeth and the second is portions of the vertebrae. Megalodon teeth are easily recognized by the compression fractures.

teeth with compression fractures

Compression fractures generally are the ambush attacks sharks employ. A lot of information can be extracted from the tooth a Megalodon shark.

Doctor Gordon Hubbell

Doctor Gordon Hubbell has been studying the teeth and jaws of sharks for many years. 95 Teeth were found by Doctor Gordon Hubbell which is the largest collection of body parts found from one Megalodon. This collection of teeth is often considered the Holy Grail to researchers of Megalodon sharks. It may be the single most convincing set of evidence that will lead to a true characterization and behaviors of the Megalodon shark.

Reconstructed Megalodon Jaw

Great White Megalodon Comparison

This great white fish holds great mythical values in the minds of today’s fishermen. Up to 6m long it is the largest shark known today. Fishermen may often exaggerate the true length of a shark by comparing it to their boat. The triangular curation of both Megalodon and the great white sharks teeth seem very similar. The white shark is considered a miniaturized version of the Megalodon shark by many scientists. The largest great white sharks are about 6m long. The great white shark is the only shark that the Megalodon resembles, but it is not clear whether the two sharks are related. The great white shark grows up to about 20ft. in length.

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A lot of research is conducted in South Africa on the giant Megalodon shark.

Compression fractures on both white sharks and Megalodon shark teeth indicate they attacked much larger play. The Megalodon shark is the greatest predator that has ever roamed the oceans of planet earth. It is believed to have roamed the seas for over 20 million years.

The Giant Megalodon

All that is left on planet earth is teeth and vertebrae samples from the giant Megalodon shark. There are twenty four teeth in the upper jaw. In the predatory battlefield the giant Megalodon used its teeth as its number one weapon. Using samples from great white sharks, researchers have been able to rebuild the giant Megalodon jaw. Gordon Hubbell is a known expert in the giant Megalodon research. In the summer of 1994 the first model giant Megalodon was recreated. A 6ft. man can stand inside of the open java giant Megalodon.

What did the Body look like?

In the San Diego natural museum a 6ft. scaled down model of the giant Megalodon was recreated from collective research of scientists of over a century. Giant Megalodon is estimated to be upwards of 50 tons in body weight.

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The Megalodon shark is a prehistoric shark also known to grow up to be 55 to 75ft. in length. Some scientists believe that Megalodon is still in existence today.

Approximately 65 million years ago Megalodon sharks existed and where known to have grown larger than 40ft. in length. That’s the size of a school bus. I have no doubt, beneath the oceans darkest depths lay a primordial sea inhabited by creatures that are assumed to be extinct.

Out of all the fishing stories you’ve heard from your friends the Megalodon shark has to be the biggest fish story. If you take seven large African elephants and combined them all together it will equal the size of a Megalodon shark. This shark is the largest predator ever to roam the ocean. There’s very little scientific information on this shark. The majority of scientific opinions derive from fossilized teeth found. This is really the only conclusive evidence that the Megalodon existed in the depths of our oceans. The bone or skeleton of the shark is made up from cartilage and this is why there are no skeletons of Megalodon ever found by researchers. ‘

The mouth and teeth of Megalodon we’re absolutely the most destructive asset of the shark. When the Megalodon mouth is opened a 6ft. man could walk through its jaw line without having to crouch down. The main diet of the shark included porpoises, whales, sea cows, pinnipeds, and dolphins. Their diet was not necessarily limited to these creatures, other creatures such as large sharks and Whale skeletons have been found with large Megalodon teeth marks in the bones.

Megalodon is name that derives from the Greek word which means big tooth or giant tooth. The largest tooth ever found was 7 and a quarter inches in length. It closely resembles today’s great white shark, the biggest difference being it is four times the size. It is believed by Megalodon researchers the approximate food intake every day of the shark was 2500lbs. Although it was considered to have been extinct 1.6 million years ago some scientist today still think Megalodon roams the ocean depths.

During Megalodon’s existence it is believed that they populated all oceans of the planet. Although it seems Megalodon had a preference for warmer waters. Scientists are still not sure whether the great white shark is a direct ancestor of Megalodon. This shark was from the family of sharks called Mackerel (White sharks).

Extinction

So why did this shark all of a sudden disappear? There are a few different ideas scientists theorize. The first one that makes more sense is the temperature of the global oceans became cooler. Megalodon prefers to warm waters. During this time the ocean currents also changed which caused a food shortage. The ocean environment and currents are considerably different today compared to when this and shark swam in the oceans. If Megalodon did exist today there would not be many locations suitable to sustain life.

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