Fish Biologist reacts to "Megalodon Proof"

so basically i came across this video called 15 reasons the megalodon shark may still exist and i watched it out of morbid curiosity just like hey i wonder what this video has to say obviously the mega blonde on doesn't still exist but i guess there are some things you could say you know in favor of maybe it still exists whatever i guess there are some things you could say so i was curious how they could come up with 15 reasons and the first two were horrible so i stopped the video and i said i want to react to this on stream in character as a fish biologist because i don't think i'm going to enjoy this i'd also like to point out it is made by a channel called faxopedia which is probably the single most misleading name you can give your channel i mean that's horrible it's like naming your channel the cooking channel and then only playing video games like facts opedia could not be further from what this actually means but anyways we won't prejudge that maybe the first two reasons were bad and there are some other good reasons why the megalodon is still alive i'll share at the end what are what is probably the best reason or like two best reasons they're not good by the way they're very very bad reasons but if you have to come up with some reason that the megalodon the you know giant prehistoric shark is still alive there are a couple that are i guess passable and more of like a we don't know kind of way but anyways let's see what this guy has to say let's cut right to the chase lots of people want megalodon to still be out there but are they as time goes by more and more people find evidence that seems to suggest these king-sized sharks might not be as dead as we thought they are of course there's every chance these so-called clues are nothing but hoaxes and the believers nothing but fools let's take a look anyway just in case here are the reasons the megalodon may still exist number fifteen video evidence as the old saying goes seeing is believing in 2019 a video posted on youtube came with the hope that everybody would believe what they saw a giant shark leaping out of the ocean to grab something in its jaws but there's a catch while the shark initially looks like a typical great white there's something different it's far far too big to be considered a normal or ordinary grape here we go can ultimately grow up to 20 feet in length this shark appears to be much much bigger raising the all right so first thing we're going to need to talk about when it comes to video evidence of a [ __ ] megalodon by the way first thing that we need to talk about is scale because you know what's crazy about the ocean not a lot of people know this but the ocean has this one really crazy you know factor about it it's made completely of water and water doesn't have a scale so you can put something in the ocean and you don't know how big that thing is you have absolutely nothing to compare it to other than water and there's no scale to water if you take a zoomed in picture of a tuna fish it can look bigger than a shark because it's in water you have nothing to compare it to still proving a hoax is an incredibly difficult task and since nobody has been able to disprove the video as of yet we can conclude that this may very well be jason statham's old friend because nobody has been able to definitively disprove that the fisheye lensed video is a megalodon it may very well be a megalodon and now it's time for the odd topic this photo from brazil this is where i had to stop i i was watching this video casually and i had to stop this is and you know what's crazy you know what's crazy about this too it's literally from a mythbusters episode yeah it's literally from a mythbusters episode it is an episode of mythbusters where they test how strong the jaw of a megalodon would be this guy used this as his number two evidence in why the megalodon still exists it's literally in an episode of mythbusters show the surface corpse of a dead shark that much is clear but how is that much clearer you can see wrinkles you can literally see this glaze of the sh the sun on the [ __ ] plastic balloon animals the size of the thing the shark's body is said to have been found by a marine biologist who was exploring nearby when he saw it floating in the fire where did you get this story it's literally from a myth he's just making things up he's saying a marine biologist found it it literally is from you can watch the episode of mythbusters and watch them build this distance quickly as he could he assembled the team and had the body dragged to the beach given the size of it he's just making things out right what do you think number 14 acela cant it may sound like something from a science fiction coelacanth is my favorite fish and the story of the coelacanth is very cool but it is not evidence that prehistoric creatures are still on earth okay the megalodon is a surface dwelling gigantic shark that is a predator the coelacanth is a deep sea in the center of the indian or south african ocean that lives in caves they live in caves at the bottom of the ocean how would anyone ever find them that is not the same thing as a giant surface shark action story but the silicon is living proof that extinction is not necessarily the end it's no it is extinction is the end the coelacanth just didn't go extinct it's just lives deep in the ocean in a place where we wouldn't interact with it much she believes that the coelacanth a small fish that lives far beneath the surface of the ocean had been extinct for over 65 million years but in 1938 scientists found a living specimen of the fish off the coast of south africa debunking any claim that the coelacanth no longer existed there were no claims no one knew [ __ ] no one cared about the coelacanth we found a fossil or a couple fossils in rocks 65 million years or older and we said okay so this fish probably went extinct 65 million years ago and then we found one it's not that unlikely it lives in a deep sea cave how often do humans go into deep sea caves even science gets it wrong sometimes the rediscovery of this long missing species has led me to don't use my favorite picture that's my favorite picture deep below the ocean far from the eyes of curious humans it's not hiding deep below the ocean the megalodon is a surface coastal warm water shark that is literally the exact opposite of everything the megalodon would do deep no it doesn't want to be deep it wants to be coastal cold water no it wants to be warm water also fun fact about the deep ocean you know what's actually in the deep ocean when you get down below a certain depth where humans are not snailfish this do you think the largest shark to ever live is surviving on [ __ ] glorified fleshy tadpoles at the bottom of the mariana trench no it is a apex predator it needs to eat other giant things that aren't down there have largely dismissed this theory noting that the megalodon preferred shallow warm water and was particularly fond of prowling the coasts okay claim that it's at least he acknowledges that we've done to adapt so drastically to a whole new life in the cold depths of the wide open okay trail scientists claim that the possibility of the meg's survival is less than one percent the rediscovery of the coelacanth means that there is now a precedence for the readers where do you get the number less than one percent from less than one percent chance that the megalodon you know why you know where he got that number from you know where he got that number from he asked or someone asked a bunch of scientists is the megalodon extinct and everyone said yes and they said well can you say that for a hundred percent certainty and of course there's science and say well no we can't 100 say it obviously there's no way to sufficiently prove that something is extinct and he's like boom less than one percent chance it might still be alive they didn't say they could 100 prove it discovery of species long thought to be extinct with new technology scientists are exploring our world in ways previously impossible and if smaller fish can adapt to a whole new ecosystem who's to say that the ultimate aquatic predator can't do the same me me i am i say that me and every other scientist ever ever work with animals would say that that a large apex predator is significantly less capable of adapting to new environments than small animals are not to mention the coelacanth didn't ex it didn't adapt it's always lived in deep ocean caves literally nothing changed you were implying that the greatest apex predator in the ocean not the greatest mososaurus better than the megalodon adapted to new temperatures new pressures new food sources no sunlight and your reason for it as well the coelacanth has stayed in the same place for a long time so clearly it's possible maybe the megalodon is a vegan now actually no no it's not nope nope nope no the megalodon is not a vegan you cannot sustain a giant shark on plants probably not number 13. the unexplored ocean oh no don't if he says the line only 15 of our ocean is explored who else knows what could be in there mistaken as a breeding ground for sharks don't say that planet earth is made up of water is taken up don't say it 361.9 don't say it don't say the explosion a single one of our five oceans there exist delicate ecosystems filled with fish algae sharks and more but despite the thousands of natural authors geographers now who've dedicated exploring these hidden worlds there's a lot more left to discover now 15 of earth's oceans have been explored meaning they're incredible i knew it was going there it always goes there that's not an argument i hate this argument so much just because only okay first of all let's define explored explored means a human being has swam there or a robot with a camera has gone there okay do you know what the majority of the world's oceans are it is just empty dead space it's just nothingness it's just giant amounts of water why would we ever go there there's nothing there there's no life we can easily tell that with satellites and mapping and imagery we don't need to explore the giant open ocean where there's absolutely nothing every day new species are being observed in old species once believed to be lost are being rediscovered yeah new species like tiny insects and like small fish at the bottom of the mariana trench not new species like the largest shark to ever exist but all of this suggests that the megalodon cat what does the thermohaline circulation have to do with anything the hot water does not go deep-sea enough to support a [ __ ] megalithic without necessarily he's just putting things on the screen to make it seem like he knows what he's talking about i don't even think he knows what thermohaline means megalodon teeth can grow up to 18 centimeters long this just seems like facts about megalodon the ocean floor they're typical shark teeth but the question remains how is it that so many teeth are being discovered if the meg is genuinely extinct [Laughter] yeah yeah yeah no no no i'm following no you know what i'm with him on this one i'm with him on this one hundreds of millions of years there was a very large shark with [ __ ] loads of teeth prowling the ocean and it lost entire sets of them on a near weekly basis how could there be so many he's right it's crazy how many megalodon you know what i have a megalodon tooth in my room how how is it possible scientists believe that the reason is logical shark's teeth are one of a handful of bones in their entire skeleton it makes complete sense that such material would remain intact and fossilized over thousands or even billions of years still it also suggests that there could in theory be a whole new group of megalodons eating well in the depths of the ocean no it doesn't how does it suggest that at all wait what is it you just jumped over no there just was nothing about what he there's lots of teeth therefore there's a surviving modern day megalodon species living in the deep ocean [Music] if a shark he loses his teeth every two weeks then it must be possible for these teeth to be brand new there could be a very no it's not possible accident actually because there's this amazing amazing thing that fossils do when they go underground i don't remember if it's oxidization or some some other chemical and they change color bones and fossils they're not white megalodon teeth that you find are not white because they've like calcified or oxidized or whatever the word for it is uh so you would know if they were new you would know and uh they're not such a huge bite could only be the work of a megalodon or a very very hungry large fish but probably the meg for the more no not probably the meg he slips that in at the end of every one he gives like barely the tiniest like the tiniest dumb not even real evidence and at the end he's like well it's probably the maglet i mean it could be something but it's pride it's probably the man i'm skeptical among us it's worth noting that megalodons were well-known carnivores who regularly feasted on dolphins whales and even other sharks couple that with ourselves so does literally everything whales are floating buffets the cape town sighting despite well slightly preoccupied it seems even wars can't stop a visit from the meg on the 18th of december 1942 nazi is he really about to show me a photo from 1942 the german soldiers piloting two u-boats in cape town south africa happened to catch a photograph i got nothing he's right that's it that is the megalodon that's it that is that's it well sorry guys pack it up i was wrong this reason is too strong i should it may well be the meg documentaries exploring the sighting of interviewed marine biologists who have confirmed that the creature scene in the photo is likely to be the big don himself no no no no no did he just say that they did a documentary and interviewed a marine biologist and marine biologist looked at that photo and you went yep megalodon don't claim that marine biologists said that that is likely the megalodon they definitely did not i refuse to believe that any self-respecting marine biologist looked at a black and white photo from the 1940s with absolutely no scale and went yep megalodon who have confirmed that the creature seen in the photo is likely to be the big don himself but it's also worth noting that these biologists are seemingly untraceable giving the skeptic some superiority on that one don't worry guys i swear the marine biologist said that it's a megalodon but i can't i don't know their names and i can't get in contact with them and we can't trace them uh but they're definitely real and they definitely are real people with degrees don't worry about it just take my word for it mariana trench known as i knew it was gonna i knew it i knew it any time there's something like aliens ufos things we don't know about it's always the mariana trench because it's just so deep we don't change in the world the mariana trench is the ultimate hiding place for underwater creatures who don't want to be bothered by the human world no it's actually not the ultimate hiding place it's cold it's extremely high pressure and there's nothing to eat it is actually probably one of the worst hiding places you could you could do it's like if you played hide and seek with your friends and dug up a grave crawled into the tombstone and then covered yourself up and be like yeah this is this is a great hiding place i can't breathe hidden away in the pacific ocean the farthest known depth in the trench is around 36 000 feet so deep that mount everest could fit completely inside of it without getting close to breaching the surface scientists have discovered that this vibrant life within this depth as creatures from zen of fire force to tiny microbial life forms thrive in this unexplored ecosystem yeah i'd like everybody to keep in mind right now that is his channel's name is faxopedia and he continuously puts on like charts and graphs that he's not even talking about have no relevance to what he's talking about on the screen to make it seem like he knows what he's talking about he's also multiple times said marine biologists say and then immediately after said well we don't actually know the name of them and we can't trace the marine biologist who said this but there is one creature who is as of yet unaccounted hey guys did you know that a harvard scientist of psychology said that i am the smartest person in the world don't ask his name i can't trace him and i can't give you his name but he said it he did fool the megalodon if the meg really is hiding deep underwater haven't adapted to the whole new climate and depth that comes with it there would be nowhere better to hide than the mariana trench yes there would literally anywhere else would be better i actually can't think of a worse place for a large predatory shark to live in a deep ocean high pressure cold foodless environment it's actually probably the worst place possible which is impressive because he was looking for the best place for the shark to hide as a reason and then gave the worst place possible from human disruption with much room to live and thrive the trench is practically a hideaway for celebrity fish it's the hamptons or the beverly hills of the ocean yeah if the hamptons or the beverly hills were in the middle of a desert had no access to water or food and you were constantly under pressure and about to explode we're gonna have to look into that one number four now google earth more than just a blatant invasion of privacy google earth is a conspiracy theorist toolbox google earth has been used to find atlantis to try and infiltrate area 51 and has now even been used to track the mag and it may well have worked somehow someone browsing on google earth discovered a captured aerial image of a shark off the coast of iraq and the discovery isn't entirely out of the realm of possibility bearing in mind that the google earth cameras will show me the [ __ ] image any animals that it captures with such clarity must be huge how often do you see pugs or poodles or hamsters exactly well with such clarity from such a height means that this creature is likely around 70 feet in length that is a very very you're just making numbers you literally already said that the shark can only go to didn't you say 60 he said he has not only said 60 feet max he said 32 feet max at one point now all of a sudden it's 70. and he's still yet to show us the image everything we know about the make we know from historical research that where's the coastal waters it's a surface dweller and typically grows to around 60 feet on now at 60 feet on average he literally like within two minutes ago said 60 feet maximum and now he's saying 60 feet on average and now he's admitting that they're coastal fish again when he had an entire section on the [ __ ] mariana trench average well this image seems to suggest all of those things if any skeptics are watching feel free to explain this one in the comments below just in get [ __ ] this may be as close as we get to is this the image this is the image this is what you're telling me as a megalodon what this looks like the hawaiian islands is that not just hawaii is it not just what hawaii looks like from google earth i i'm trying to see the fish and i don't even see the fish or it could be a big shark number three the hms challenger sure the hms challenger has been out of service since how the [ __ ] does the this that's from the eighteen hundreds where does this come from eighteen hundreds but that's also what they say about the mech the hms challenger was a royal navy ship and they're right about both yeah the hms challenger hasn't swam since the 1800s and the megalodon hasn't been typically used for marine expeditions back in the 1800s and that is precisely where the meg comes in in 1875 the hms challenger discovered a pair of megalodon teeth while dredging the tahiti seabed as part of an expedition teeth have been the subjects of intense debate with experts dating them anywhere between 10 000 and 25 000 years old that of course is a very long time but it doesn't line up with the generally agreed extinction date of the meg according to scientists the megalodon went extinct around one and a half million years ago so if the meg which may i remind you loses teeth every two weeks is extinct how exactly did it leave behind a tooth several hundred thousand years after the date it disappeared i've got a crazy theory it was the 1800s and they still were healing people if you went to the doctor with a cold they prescribed you cocaine okay so maybe just maybe the scientists didn't really know what they were talking about you know maybe just a thought so what happened to a group of australian cage divers who witnessed what may just be one of the first undeniable sightings of megalodon in our modern age while it has the appearance and the body structure associated with a typical great white the [ __ ] stop there stop there there's an image of a fish in the ocean it has the typical body appearance and look of a great white that's where you stop that's just hey see this ladybug it looks like a ladybug it acts like a ladybug it has the pattern of a ladybug and it's a megalodon the size of the animal has led many to suggest that this creature may just have something special about it of course marine biologists and scientists have as expected dismiss the footage as merely great whites exist in the ocean something everybody knows but that explanation is pretty weak considering the size of the beast which is clearly something much larger than the great white if this no it's not this isn't the meg it that's not clearly larger than a great white there's just a normal fish swimming alongside of it i mean the scale makes sense for a great white again what are you comparing it to like this is this is the very first point i made when we started watching this video is you can't come up with size measurements in the open ocean it's just always arbitrary

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Length: 24min 23sec (1463 seconds)

Published: Mon May 17 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/ajyanesp]

Discovery Channel: aCkSHuAlLy

[u/redwolf1219]

Look, logically I know it doesnt. But like, for my mental health I need to pretend I don't know that.

[u/IRLJumpyWizardSmurf]

So happy I found this post. Subbed to the channel for the well presented unbiased fact based information, and then was pleasantly surprised by a little oarfish song at the end of another video of theirs. Just a little cherry on top imo I suppose. :)

[u/Dracarys_Aspo]

I know this, but it's still heartbreaking. I just want to boop a megalodon snoot.

[u/kitsukitty]

Omg I think I almost died laughing 😅 this was hilarious!