15 Sea Monsters That Are Scarier Than Megalodon

from a sea-dwelling reptile to a fish-splitting worm here are 15 sea monsters that are scarier than megalodon number 15 titanoboa we don't really fancy living in the time period of 60 million years ago not only did they not have the internet back then but they also had giant snakes just based on the size we're looking at and giant snakes have big appetites the titanic boa which thankfully is now extinct lived in northeastern colombia around 60 million years ago they weighed around 2 500 pounds grew to about 42 feet long and thrived in the middle to late paleocene epoch after the cretaceous paleogene extinction event titanoboa are the largest snakes ever discovered and they lived in the tropical forests of south america hold on if the snake lived on land then how is it a sea monster well they lived around coastal swamp areas and there were extensive river networks that flowed through these and because of its size and lack of legs it did spend most of its time in the water so not only would you have had to fear the titanoboa on land but in the water too see no wonder we'd prefer them to be extinct there would be nowhere to escape from these absolutely huge beasts before we go on like this video smash the subscribe button and click the notification bell right now or slenderman will come from under your bed while you're sleeping [Applause] number 14. helicoprion it can be scary enough operating woodworking equipment like a buzzsaw for the first time but imagine if that buzz saw was attached to a 39 foot shark it would be the animal of your nightmares the helicoprion might not sound like a real animal but it once was and it is far scarier than the megalodon helicoprions while shark-like in appearance were a type of fish from around 290 million years ago for several decades researchers were finding spiral-like clusters of teeth called tooth whirls we have spirals that go up over two and a half feet in diameter but had no idea how they were positioned on the body of the helicoprion they knew that with the tooth whirl measuring around 18 to 24 inches that it would belong to an animal of about 39 feet but they still didn't know where it would sit several sketches of this shark-like animal were created over the years some even showing the teeth on its tail and head eventually they decided that it was positioned in the mouth like a buzz saw teeth would move through the tooth whirl as they grew and new teeth were continuously pushing out old ones so not only would you be fighting for your life against a nearly 40-foot sea monster but one that could saw you to pieces yeah we're not sorry this one's extinct that's for sure number 13 leviathan we're pleased to announce that this sea monster even though it is far scarier than the megalodon is biblical so there's no need for any alarm [Music] the leviathan was a primordial sea serpent that was a symbol of god's power of creation a description of the leviathan is of a multi-headed sea serpent that god kills and gives as food to the hebrews in the wilderness it's mentioned in the old testament in psalms 74 7414 in isaiah 27 1 the leviathan is a serpent that is seen to represent israel's enemies traditionally references to leviathan are as a dragon-like creature however it has also been used to describe sea monsters as well you may also recognize leviathan from the book of job which speaks of a primeval monster that the god baal haddad defeats it doesn't matter where you read or hear about the leviathan though there's one thing for sure it is terrifying from its massive size and frightening features to its power and many heads there could be nothing more awful to come across in the ocean so if this existed today you can only imagine that it would be more terrifying than the megalodon number 12. leviatin melville the levitan melville gets the first part of its name from the biblical sea monster leviathan the second part though comes from hermann melville the author of the book moby dick which talks of an albino bull sperm whale the leviton melville is an extinct sperm whale that is thought to have lived between 9.9 and 8.9 million years ago while much of what is known about this whale is from the area surrounding peru there have also been teeth found in south africa argentina australia and chile and may have even been present throughout the southern hemisphere people don't tend to be as scared by the idea of a whale as they are a shark but that doesn't mean this one wasn't scary it was an apex predator and its main diet consisted of seals whales and other large animals it had giant enamel coated teeth on the upper and lower part of the jaw and it had a few adaptations that made it suitable for chowing down on large prey given the size of the skull scientists have also been able to figure out that this whale could swallow a human whole out of all tetrapods it had the largest bite and the fact that it had a wide and short snout meant that it could bite with far more force through its front teeth too number 11. big fin squid the big fin squid also known as the long arm squid is a cephalopod that is very rarely seen and it turned out to be one of the arms of this gigantic squid and given how weird it looks we're sure that most people will be happy about that they're around 26 feet long with pulsating fins and elbowed tentacles they live in the dark depths of the ocean and not a lot is known about them due to how rarely seen they are scientists believe they eat by dragging their tentacles along the sea floor but they may also use their arms in a kind of trapping technique to get zooplankton the first record of a sighting was back in 1907 and then again in 1956 however the first visual recording of them wasn't until 1988. the crew from the submersible noddle discovered one at 15 353 feet below the ocean's surface off the coast of northern brazil then in 1998 the submersible called shinkai 6500 spotted one in the indian ocean at 680 feet given their terrifyingly long arms and tentacles and how they lurk in the dark depths of the ocean the big thin squid can't help but send a shiver up your spine number 10 lyopleurodon our oceans are full of terrifying creatures most of which we haven't even discovered yet but what we have discovered and also know is extinct is the lyopleurodon and this beast was far more terrifying than any namby-pamby megalodon lyopleurodons were marine reptiles that existed during the jurassic period they had short necks huge teeth at the front of their mouths and a body length of around 20 feet previously they were thought to be about 85 feet long the first fossil was discovered in 1873 and that plus others shed light on what they were like these marine reptiles had short necks smooth teeth and could weigh up to 10 tons they were the apex predator of the time and lived on smaller marine reptiles squid and fish they were also exceptionally fast swimmers with long flat flippers that would propel them through the water their forward-facing nostrils make scientists believe they also had an incredible sense of smell which meant that they could track down prey from significant distances away but because they had no gills they had to come up for air just as whales need to lyopleuridons may not be as large as some existing sea creatures today but they were sure a lot scarier than a lot of them number nine dunkleosteus many of us hear the word fish and it doesn't fill us with fear battered fish fried fish fish fillets fish fingers they should be more afraid of us but if you live during the late devonian period of around 358 to 382 million years ago we'd be singing a different tune because that was when the 20-foot long one-ton dunkleosteus was alive and he wasn't a very nice fish believe it or not this is normal behavior the dunkleosteus isn't being sick the dunkleosteus was once considered one of the fiercest fish of the time and he lived in sub-tropical waters around what is now known as ohio he would shout down on sharks as if they were mincemeat and he even had self-sharpening jaw bones the thick bony plates huge skull and two sets of fang-like teeth were the thing of nightmares and they weren't just for looks either the force behind the dunkleosteus's bite was incredible their bite force was around 1 349 pounds at the tip and 1664 pounds at the blade edge even scarier was knowing that they were around in large numbers this fish used to live around north america morocco belgium and poland while we believe them to be extinct how can we actually prove that number 8 stetho canthus not everything scary in the ocean and more terrifying than the megalodon had to be giant sometimes as we know from insects like mosquitoes they can be small and equally as horrible the stethocanthus is an example of that the stethocanthus had a shark-like head appearance sure this extinct shark-like creature from the holocephalian family was only 3 feet long and about 20 pounds but it was awful if you were to compare it to anything it would be like an annoying little sibling but with murderous intent they lived during the late devonian too late carboniferous epoch and were extinct around 289.9 million years ago good riddance so why do we dislike this death so much they were a menace to sharks fish and everything in their path they would eat anything and everything even if they were in hungry and scientists spent a long time trying to work out their anatomy the male stethocanthus had a strange ironing board like feature on its back that had a rough surface and no real use it was finally worked out that it acted as a docking mechanism for attaching to females for mating so not only were they annoying to every other fish in the ocean but to scientists who were baffled for so many years too number six bobbitt worm we'd like to say that we're not afraid of worms after all they're worms and not really that frightening but we can't say that about the bobbit worm and the more you learn about them the more terrified you'll become trust us bobbitt worms are a type of bristle worm that lives in the atlantic ocean and parts of the indo-pacific ocean while you might be lucky enough to come across one that's only four inches long you may also be very unlucky to spot one at 10 feet long there is no set size for these weird wormies to look at them they don't look scary but neither do toddlers and then you see them throw in a tantrum and think otherwise bobbitt worms burrow into the ocean floor and become ambush predators they wait until they can sense prey nearby with their sensor antenna then they strike they have razor sharp teeth and quick instincts they also have mandibles that are so fast and strong they can literally rip prey in half a fish is considered lucky if it's not ripped in half because if it survives the initial attack then it's dragged into the burrow to become dinner and not before it's injected with toxins we'd recommend not getting too close to the bobbitt worm for you might regret it number five arthropleura imagine a millipede oh so cute and little so innocent so not at all terrifying then imagine that millipede at 8.2 feet long arthropleura which is greek for jointed ribs is a now extinct type of millipede that used to exist around 345 to 295 million years ago it lived around the area of scotland and northeastern north america and became extinct around the permian period it preferred to live in forest environments and was one of the largest species of the millipede arthropod family okay so it's not a sea monster but that doesn't mean it's not worth talking about scientists believe that while it lived on land it could also travel underwater it may have even returned to rivers and lakes to molt its shell and grow a new one fortunately for us even if this millipede were around today we'd be unlikely to be bothered by it they were herbivores and scientists don't believe they have powerful mouth parts for chewing meat still that doesn't mean that they weren't terrifying to look at imagine having an eight-foot millipede scuttle it up to you number four cronosaurus being a scientist must be very exciting one minute you're typing away on a keyboard and the next you're discovering the fossils of an extinct species the kronosaurus was a short-necked pliosaur that lived during the early cretaceous period it was considered one of the largest of its kind and could grow up to 36 feet the first ever fossil finding of the chronosaurus was in 1899 when a queensland australia man found a piece of bone with six conical teeth in 1899 a quarter of a century later it was officially given the title of a new species a partial discovery was made in the same location in 1929 as more and more pieces were found the puzzle was starting to be put together the chronosaurus was a marine reptile with four flippers a short tail short neck and elongated head it had lots of long and sharp teeth and it weighed around 12.1 tons the skull alone could even measure up to 9.4 feet long this monster also didn't hold back with its menu preferences it would dine on turtles and plesiosaurs and it also enjoyed giant squid from time to time there's no doubt that if it were around today we would be on the menu as well number three helveticosaurus there's a lot that we don't know about the extinct marine reptile called helveticosaurus the terrifying part is what we do know leads to questions that this reptile could have been far scarier than we first thought they existed during the middle triassic period in the southern parts of switzerland the information we have on this reptile comes from a nearly complete hollow type which consists of several pieces of its skeleton we know they had teeth so that's a start we also know that they were about eight feet long from their snout to their tail many of their features looked like they had been adapted for marine life their flexible tail looks like that of the similar thalata source and it may have used this to propel itself through the water in saying that it would have also used its forelimbs and particularly robust pectoral girdle which are quite strange for aquatic reptiles most marine reptiles also have a long slender head but the helveticosaurus didn't it's box-like head may have made a difference in how it ate while we don't know everything about the helveticosaurus we can only imagine that we wouldn't have been its friend number two the dumbo octopus the dumbo octopus is not a name you would give to a man-eating creature and you'd be right this octopode is not more dangerous than the megalodon but it's undoubtedly as scary-looking as one they are generally quite small at around 12 inches but they can grow up to around 6 feet but if you're wondering why you've never seen one before that's because they live around 13 000 feet below the ocean's surface the dumbo octopus never tends to look the same either it can camouflage itself to suit its environment and this can protect it from becoming something else's snack their diet is reasonably modest so you can rest assured that we're not on the menu instead they eat snails worms and pretty much anything they can suck up from the ocean's floor watching the dumbo octopus swim is quite mesmerizing and definitely not at all scary that's beautiful there are no jaws film scenes here guys they flap their fins to cause a jet propulsion in the process and their arm webbing gives them a bit of extra speed so while they're not as angry as a megalodon they're definitely far less attractive than one number one the frilled shark we think that the frilled shark missed the memo about going extinct because even though this prehistoric creature looks like it should be gone with the dinosaurs it is very much alive we're not sure how we feel about that yes it is real and it's not something out of a horror movie they are long cylindrical sharks that grow up to around seven feet long they live in the open ocean but spend most of their time far below the ocean's surface their vicious active predators and will easily swallow their large prey whole fortunately for us the frilled shark prefers squid but we don't think we'd like to put that theory to the test there are several rows of teeth with long points are particularly useful for stabbing through soft flesh even though the frilled shark is of course a shark it tends to look more eel-like than others it also moves with stealth and has a serpentine-like style of swimming that's definitely more eel than great white so as scary as the megalodon is at least it's extinct who knows how long we're gonna have to put up with the frilled shark for we weren't wrong were we there really are sea monsters out there that are scarier than the megalodon ever was isn't it crazy to also know that we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of what lies in the depths of the ocean which do you think is the scariest sea monster also check out our other cool stuff showing up on 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Length: 20min 44sec (1244 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 09 2020