All Your Megalodon Shark Facts In One Video

[Music] so did Megalodon definitely go extinct huh I sure hope so the ocean is vast and filled with terrifying looking creatures but the prehistoric Megalodon would put them all to shame for over ten million years the toothy megladon ruled the world's waters and we're thanking our lucky stars it doesn't exist today while theories out there argue that these bad boys of the ocean are still around there's no doubt that they're long gone and extinct still don't believe it just get ready for a big dose of scientific evidence meet the Megalodon the largest shark ever documented in earth's history the Megalodon seems to be the stuff nightmares are made of or dreams if you love impressive creatures that could use you as a toothpick its full name is car careless Megalodon but some shark enthusiasts just call it the Meg whatever name it goes by this giant was the biggest baddie of the ocean when it terrorized the waters 2 million years ago if you're afraid of modern sharks get ready for these facts because this prehistoric predator puts them all to shame the Megalodon was the biggest shark ever we'll start with the obvious here this shark species was the largest this planet has ever seen different estimates put its size anywhere from 45 up to 60 feet in length to put that into perspective 60 feet would make the Megalodon about four times the size of the average great white shark the Meg weighed up to 100 tons again for comparison the t-rex weight of mere nine tons the biggest shark living today is the whale shark which can grow up to 40 feet long so there's really no other shark that can compare to the megalodons massive size we don't have many fossils of it today there's currently a very limited amount of Megalodon fossils shark skeletons are made of cartilage which doesn't fossilize very well so that means almost all that remains of the mighty Meg are its teeth which have been found on every continent except for Asia and Antarctica given that it's fossilized teeth are everywhere scientists have gathered that the Megalodon traveled throughout the world using these fossils as a guide scientists have tried to put a picture together of what this giant predator actually looked like and how it lived many of the fossils have been found on shark-tooth Hill near Bakersfield California this is a popular site where people can dig for teeth while wearing protective gloves although some shark teeth have been buried for ages they can still be sharp enough to cut through the skin is speaking of teeth the Megalodon had enormous teeth the name itself says it all Megalodon means big tooth most of its teeth were about 4 to 5 inches long but the largest tooth ever found was 7.48 inches and it was discovered in Peru with a rare size like that these fossils can be very valuable a seven-inch high quality Megalodon tooth can be sold for up to $50,000 but if you have a small tooth in your collection don't expect to get a large amount of cash short small Megalodon teeth tend to be valued quite low the Megalodon had a killer smile those teeth weren't just super massive in order to feast regularly on large prey the Meg had an impressive set of 276 feet that sat in five rows in its mouth most fossilized teeth that have been recovered show a significant amount of wear on the tips and some have had the tips completely broken off from biting on the bones of its prey all those teeth arranged in five rows served as a backup system so that the Megalodon would never run out as soon as it lost a tooth another one would replace it within 48 hours that way this massive predator could feed his insatiable appetite and munch on prey non-stop the largest Megalodon tooth ever found which measures at about 7 inches long is almost 3 times larger than the teeth you'll find in the great white sharks of today the Megalodon sported 276 of these giant and sharply serrated teeth that could rip the flesh of dolphins whales and possibly even other sharks according to the Natural History Museum in London scared yet well I am but don't go running for the hills just yet Megalodon has long been extinct despite blockbuster hit movies like 2018 the Meg and conspiracy theories running rampant on the Internet these prehistoric sea beasts no longer exist yep rest assured that Ladon did in fact go extinct 2.6 million years ago and the proof is in the scientific pudding my favorite flavor about 2.6 million years ago marked the beginning of the era known as the Pleistocene at the beginning of this era temperatures began to cool and glacier started to form all over if you're thinking this was the time of the ice ages you'd be right oh my friend due to the planets falling temperatures things started changing in the earth oceans for one thing whale started migrating to find more food landing them closer to the poles being one of the megalodons primary meal to goes it became harder and harder for the humongous predator to find whales to munch on perhaps this was the reason for megalodons extinction well that's what scientists thought up until 2016 when dr. Catalina Pia Mentos and her team of researchers came onto the scene and said that this probably wasn't the case at all well there's no doubt that the Megalodon definitely went extinct it probably wasn't because they couldn't keep up with whales in the cooler temperatures and that's because Megalodon fossils have actually been found in waters as cold as 33 degrees Fahrenheit which means that these giant sharks weren't afraid of ice cold temperatures sure they typically preferred a much cozier 53 to 80 degrees setting but Pia mentos studies showed that they could totally bare ice waters this isn't all that hard to believe since today sharks are actually mezzo thermic meaning they're able to keep their body temperature slightly warmer people went surrounding water they'd lie okay so if the whales new migration patterns weren't what killed the Megalodon species then what did like with so many things the answer is competition that's right even though the Megalodon were ferocious and scary they were actually other flesh-eating predators sharing the ocean that liked to eat a lot of the same things that these giant sharks did talk about a dog-eat-dog world or rather a shark eat shirt shirt never mind you get the point one of the megalodons biggest competitors in the deep blue during the mid mio scene era was the now extinct genus of sperm whale known as the live yacht and Mel Villa these prehistoric sperm whales had shorter jaws than today sperm whales and they were able to chomp down on sharks and even other whales yeah and these weren't the only carnivorous whales that roamed the ocean waters during this era [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] McClendon was the biggest and baddest shark of the ocean 23 million years ago it could grow up to 60 feet and its jaw bite was stronger than a t-rex's it was a force to be reckoned with eating other sharks whales and dolphins for breakfast so you might think that there was nothing that could stop it but even this massive shark had enemies and their fights could be lethal think of a t-rex vs. Godzilla way out in the middle of the ocean wearing life vests duking it out and you get the picture [Music] well maybe not life vests those are from the Flintstones period seto thuria sido thuria was a baleen whale from the seat othera dye family it lived in the mid Miocene period to the early Pliocene period and grew up to 15 feet fossil records have revealed that sido thorium would be megalodons top target Megalodon would be massive compared to sita thuria but Sita xxx had a few tricks of its sleeve the very first whales had pointed teeth for catching and killing other sea animals leader Ahn Sita thorium evolved and developed baleen a strong but flexible material made of keratin which caught small organisms and worked as a strainer as it fed the small organisms would have been caught in large enough quantities to keep seed of thorium satisfied this would keep seed of thorium close to the surface and away from Megalodon but when Sita thorium was spotted by Megalodon there was no escape Megalodon would dive down to look up at its prey and then it would Ram Sita thorium at high speed damaging vertebrae in the process seto thorium would be too stunned to be able to escape and all's well that ends well zag o fire verily this large predator was unknown until geologists found an almost complete Saiga fighter skeleton in 2016 on the shores of southern Italy it's also referred to as a killer sperm whale because of its strong similarities in size to the killer whale and its close relationship to the sperm whale Zygo Feist saidar lived in the late miocene period some 11 to 7 million years ago and it cruised the Mediterranean region from fossil records paleontologists have gathered that Zygo Feist setter grew to be 20 feet long it had an asymmetrical cranium which is commonly associated with high-frequency sound production and echolocation Zygo fighter used its echolocation to find and hunt large prey their teeth could range from 6 to 10 inches and they had 14 teeth in their lower jaw and 13 on top since their teeth were large and they had full jaw functionality it's likely that they fed on large fish dolphins small whales and cephalopods such as squids and octopuses it's lethal bite would have been its best chance against Megalodon [Music] although Feist said er now all of I said err was a predatory whale very similar to modern-day sperm whales sperm whales are the largest predators and the largest toothed whales today hollow fighter lived in the Miocene period back then the country of Panama was underwater and many species crossed from the east coast of North America to the west coast through a passageway the passageway called the Central American Seaway was also a favorite travel spot for megladon all ofus adders reached a length of 20 feet and weighed about 2400 pounds with these specifications anyone can see that Megalodon was much larger but a loaf eye setters would swim in groups to repel attacks by giant beasts like megladon in the hope of being protected by the gore oh my brig mph I said er should jens's now brig mo Phi Center was a highly predatory sperm whale the only known fossil is a nearly complete skeleton that is dated at 14 to 15 million years old from it paleontologists gathered that brig mo five-setter was 23 feet long legs I go fight Center brig malphite's header also had teeth and its upper and lower jaws these powerful jaws and their size set them at the top of the food chain and they roam near the coast of Japan like sperm whales it had a sperma Ceti organ which gave it the ability to use echolocation to find and identify prey megalodons traveled all the way around the world as evidenced by the location of their fossils megalodons and brig mo fighters swam the oceans at the same time the Miocene period brig mph I said er was a predator to fish squid and other small whales but its role could switch from predator to prey when it faced Megalodon [Music] ran fo such us now renfa suchas is one of the largest known crocodiles ever to roam earth the world wouldn't even be aware of the existence of Rafa such as if it wasn't for the discovery of in complete sets of fossils that are mostly teeth and skulls Ram fascitis is estimated to have been 26 to 36 feet long it inhabited the Indian subcontinent and like Megalodon it lived in the Miocene period it's a relative of the modern false Gauri all a native of Peninsular Malaysia let the false Korea it is believed to have had a longer and thinner snout compared to other crocodiles it also had multiple teeth to capture its prey theory suggests that Ram Phocis fed on fish and on occasion much larger prey Rafa such as was such an excellent swimmer thanks to its strong and long tail given its massive size it would go into rivers and oceans to try to find enough food to sustain it this is where it was likely to have occasionally encountered Megalodon Ram facetious and megladon would have fought over the same food given that Rafa such as had such a long and strong bite it would have been a big challenger to Megalodon livvie inton melville a you might know this whale by the name Leviathan soon after researchers discovered Livia tans fossils and assigned at the name Leviathan they realized that the name had already been taken by a mastodon a century earlier this caused the switch to the Hebrew spelling of live yatin now live yatin and Megalodon were two of the most terrifying creatures to roam the oceans and both live during the Miocene period live yatin was a whale that was 60 feet long and weighed up to 50 tonnes its largest teeth were up to 14 inches long a theory about live yachting's method of haunting is that it was very similar to megalodons it would dive deep and headbutt its prey at fast speeds and its target would be other whales Megalodon and leviathan competed for the same food and fought over turf they both preferred to feed on baleen whales like Sita thorium which we mentioned earlier live yatin had the longest teeth but Megalodon had the strongest bite they were both of a similar size and weight and had plenty of reasons to fight each other so who do you think would win in a fight it's unclear if these two beasts actually targeted each other but it is likely that they butted heads over food regardless of whether these predators could win a battle against Megalodon or not their existence put a big dent in megalodons lifespan Megalodon was of such a massive size that it needed over 2,500 pounds of food a day research suggests that the increase in competition for food from other predators and the lack of prey might have been a strong factor in megalodons extinction so who do you think would win a fight between live yatin and Megalodon do you think any of these predators could have taken down Megalodon tell us your opinion in the comments by the end of the Maya scene a new shark into the picture and changed everything it was the carcharodontosaurus new kid on the block wasn't afraid to go head-to-head with a mighty Megalodon when it came to hunting for prey how do scientists know this well teeth marks of the Carcharodontosaurus time move forward into the Pliocene era whales were starting to disappear while there were about 60 different whale species in the previous Miocene age only 40 remain by the time of the Pliocene many of these whales had evolved and sported baleen instead of teeth these bristle looking things in the whale's mouth serve as filtration system that helps them catch more krill their favorite food the krill they feed on a primarily microscopic algae known as diatoms but around 3 million years ago the many different kinds of diatoms started to diminish leaving only a few different types well it's still not known why this happened it could have been due to a shift in ocean water circulation because of this lack of diatoms there weren't as many krill swimming around which in turn left whales with empty bellies as these whales slowly disappeared did the megladon circle of life right at this time the Megalodon had to put their game faces on and fight even harder against the great white sharks who were smaller and faster it'd be like racing a Ford Escape with a Porsche Carrera GT catch my drift mmm-hmm with these great white sharks being more agile and smaller they required less food than the Megalodon and that rightsiders is why 2.6 million years ago the very last Megalodon roamed the oceans as the scariest shark around giant blood hungry predator or not there's always something a little sad about species dying out don't you think but what if the McClendon had survived the whale food shortage and continued to thrive what today's oceans look different well you'd be way less likely to go swimming in the ocean am i right well jokes aside today's marine life would be a little different if the Megalodon were still around for one thing we may not have the massive whale species we've come to know like the blue whale these guys can measure up to 82 feet making them the biggest animal we've ever seen on this earth they managed to grow to such a hefty size thanks to the fact that over a couple million years these bigger whales weren't hunted by the oceans new smaller predators the great white shark and the Orca without being on someone's dinner plate larger species of whales continue to grow and thrive becoming the massive animals they are today [Music] while today's great white sharks aren't even close to being as big as the Megalodon they seem to be following in its fin steps the great white grows about three feet larger than its ancestors that swam alongside the Megalodon during the Pliocene on top of that they seem to grow faster when they're younger similar to how the Megalodon dead does this mean that the great white has the potential to become as large and fierce as the Megalodon in the future well with whales growing as big as they are today and the great white thriving inner oceans the next Megalodon could be right around the corner well considering that it took millions of years for the Megalodon to evolve and grow as big as they were in their prime that's going to be one long and distant corner so there you have it scientific proof that the Megalodon no longer exists sorry to burst your bubble if you were hoping otherwise it looks like the only Megalodon you'll be seeing in the near future will be on screen it's not related to the great white shark another well-known and equally feared shark although now it seems like a puny little runt is the great white which can be found in the coastal areas of all major oceans popular belief has it that the great white shark is a descendant of the Meg but that claim has been disproven when the first fossilized teeth of the Megalodon were discovered they place the mighty shark in the same genus as the great white but fossil discoveries that have been made since show that the Megalodon actually comes from a single evolutionary line that can be traced 60 million years back to the odor discharge the Megalodon had a powerful bite in order to chew on the bones of its prey the Meg needed to have a very powerful bike to figure out how strong its bite was a research group led by biologist dr. Stephen row conducted simulations and reported that the Megalodon could bite down on his prey with twenty four thousand to forty thousand pounds of pressure as for the Tyrannosaurus Rex it had just twelve thousand eight hundred pounds of bite force while the great white shark has only four thousand pounds with powerful jaws like that the Megalodon could crush a small car in a second though would probably break all of its teeth in the process but no worries they'd all grow back in a few days [Music] it's favorite dish was Wales giant beasts have giant appetites and the Meg was no exception it had the Rome the seven seas in order to meet its daily requirement of 25 hundred pounds of food so that means it needed some really big braids to accomplish that goal while it feasted on just about anything that dared cross its path like fish seals and sea turtles whales were its favorite dish scientists know that the Megalodon loved to eat whales because fossilized whale bones have been found with bite marks that match the Megalodon teeth experts theorize that the Meg would dive deep into the ocean stalk its prey from below and ram the whale at full speed fracturing its bones shocking the poor thing and thus disabling it their nurseries have been discovered when the Megalodon was ready to give birth it would travel the shallow waters where large predators couldn't follow scientists have found several of these nurseries in the bone valley region of Florida the Calvert Cliffs in Maryland and the Gatton formation in Panama to name a few and experts know these spots are nurseries because they found one and a half inch long baby Megalodon teeth there but before your oh how cute meter starts to go off you should know that baby megalodons were about six and a half feet long at birth even at that size they still needed to be protected from other big sharks and whales so like modern sharks Megalodon young probably stayed in the nursery until they were big enough to stand their own ground against larger predators [Applause] it was top of the food chain the Megalodon was the top predator of the ocean until it wasn't the giant shark went extinct 2.6 million years ago and there are several theories as to why this happened one of them suggests climate changes to blame the Megalodon would swim in warm waters but climate change would have decreased the temperature of the oceans over the years until the Meg could no longer survive in the cold waters another theory claims that it was increased competition from large predators that left this massive shark without any food a 2017 study published in the Journal of paleo geography paleoclimatology and paleo ecology claims that the Megalodon met its end when its prey went extinct this study theorizes that with a disappearance of prey the predator that feasts on it would go extinct as well since small baleen whales went extinct it's likely that the Megalodon soon followed now let's take a moment to be thankful that humans weren't around during the Meigs reign but would you prefer that the Megalodon was still alive do you know any other interesting facts about this mega shark tell us in the comments below and don't forget to subscribe to stay on the bright side of life few things terrify people less than sharks quick and Sharptooth these predators often appear in the nightmares of beachgoers at the same time the dangers that sharks present fascinate people dozens of films depict these bloodthirsty and formidable creatures people marvel at their power strength and size indeed their size can be really impressive great white shark 23 feet long the average length of a great white is 23 feet however the largest shark people have come across was 26 feet long Wow that's half the length of a basketball court despite such an impressive size great white sharks can move at a speed of 35 miles per hour which is really fast for underwater traffic the bite of a great white has a terrifying force of 1.8 tons per square inch that's ten times more forceful than a lion's bite as for the teeth themselves a great white has 5 rows of teeth each row contains 40 60 and each tooth is of a size similar to a human palm with the length of 3.5 inches by the way these guys don't ever get cavities hundreds of teeth can fall out and regrow within a shark's lifetime lucky them female sharks grow to be much larger than males at maturity a great white can reach a weight of a thousand five hundred to 2,400 pounds and now brace yourself the heaviest great white shark on record weighed an epic seven thousand 328 pounds there's almost no place on earth where you won't have an opportunity to meet a great white shark these animals hunt along the coasts of all the continents well except for Antarctica as the water there is too cold the temperature great whites prefer ranges from 54 degrees Fahrenheit to 75 degrees Fahrenheit but if you're really eager to make the acquaintance of a great white shark come to Dyer Island in South Africa this place is also called shark alley and since most great white sharks choose exactly this location for life you can see why researchers are sure that great white sharks have been roaming the seas for the last 16 million years perhaps even more and while scientists used to believe that a great whites life expectancy didn't exceed 25 years new research proves that these predators typically live up to 70 years Pacific sleeper shark 23.6 feet long Pacific sleeper sharks look unlike any other shark their body is shaped like a torpedo they have a wide blunt head and their mouth is pretty small the biggest representatives of this species can grow as long as 23 feet one more thing that makes specific sleepers stand apart is their color it's not that silver in white shade you'd expect from a proper shark dark gray or even black helps Pacific sharks blend in with the sunless depths in which they live in addition Pacific sleepers have tiny eyes which are most often colonized by parasites these nightmarish miniscule creatures occupy the outer layer of the shark's eye and much on the tissue making the sharks almost blind luckily they have a perfect sense of smell to help them not to starve it's probably obvious that Pacific sharks live in the Pacific Ocean but while research is used to think that this species live only in the north some of these gigantic predators have been spotted near Mexico and even Taiwan tiger shark 24 feet long the tiger shark is one of the largest shark species in the world their average length can reach 16 feet but the largest specimen reached 24 feet they can weigh 800 to 1500 pounds which is heavier than the average horse why exactly are they called tiger sharks it's because when a baby shark is born it's covered with dark stripes resembling those of a tiger unfortunately this pretty pattern fades when a shark becomes older just like their namesakes tiger sharks are excellent hunters besides using their perfect eyesight and developed sense of smell these sharks have one more advantage near their snouts are special pores filled with the substance that resembles jelly this substance can sense electric fields all living beings give off some kind of electric field thus a tiger shark can always find its prey the most unique thing about a tiger shark is its team they are not just super sharp they also have saw-like edges these teeth are so strong that they can easily bite through a clamp or a sea turtle uh-oh one more unwanted image to make our nightmares more exciting basking shark 39 feet long the basking shark is the second largest shark alive today surprisingly you don't have to scatter away as soon as you see this bus-sized giant basking sharks are gentle creatures whose diet consists of fish eggs plankton and other tiny organisms basking sharks feed by filtering water that's why their mouths are simply colossal adult sharks have 3 foot wide Moz in only one hour a shark can filter more than 1800 tons of water through its gills wide basking sharks this name appeared thanks to the habit these peaceful leviathans have of lounging near the surface of the water and seemingly basking in sunlight in fact soaking up some Sun isn't their main goal the higher the latitudes are the more plankton congregates their whale shark 40 feet long if you ever dreamed of meeting the largest fish in the world here you go let us introduce the whale shark although they are called whale sharks these creatures have nothing in common with whales but honestly speaking they don't resemble your usual shark either the character of these giants is docile and calm and they don't present any real danger to humans whale sharks can grow to a whopping 46 feet long and their weight can reach 12 tons just like basking sharks whale sharks sieve the tiny marine organisms through their gills they also eat small fish squid and krill does this make whale sharks toothless not at all in fact each of these creatures has a mouth full of 3,000 tiny teeth which in all fairness they don't use another thing that separates whale sharks from others is the way they swim instead of using their tail they move their body from side to side well you might be unlucky enough to come across some of these monsters in our modern seas and oceans but what about the real Giants we mean sharks that have become extinct but terrorized marine inhabitants many centuries ago treetog Sirena 25 feet long credo Sirena is also known as the Ginsu shark this creature roamed the season oceans 100 million years ago in the Cretaceous period despite this fact they look pretty similar to modern sharks these predators reached a weight of a thousand to 2,000 pounds and could grow as long as 25 feet they had incredibly sharp teeth not unlike knives therefore there died included not only fish and smaller marine animals but also a random dinosaur for example a tylosaurus owed us 30 feet long this massive shark reigned over the oceans 60 to 45 million years ago Autodesk's could grow up to 30 feet in length and weigh more than 4,000 pounds that's the weight of the average new car in the US this predator could also boast razor-sharp 4-inch long teeth with the help of these daggers auto dust feasted on big fish and whales helicoprion 30 feet long helicoprion was not only one of the biggest but also one of the most uncommon prehistoric sharks it lived about 290 million years ago these sharks got their name helicoprion from the greek for spyro saw thanks to the highly unusual coils of teeth lining their jaws those coils tended to unfurl like a table saw crushing their prey try to get this image out of your head now Tyco does 30 feet long Tyco does which means folded teeth in Greek lived 90 to 60 million years ago this was a massive shark that could reach 30 feet in length with a weight that varied between one and two thousand pounds this shark was different from other prehistoric sharks because it had large teeth which however were flat due to this fact Tycho das was a bottom-feeder with a diet of shellfish and mollusks have you ever seen a shark tell us about your experience in the comments below and if the biggest predators of the oceans have managed to impress you give us a thumbs up [Music]

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Length: 35min 25sec (2125 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 02 2019