Exactly, something that big would need to prey on Cetaceans to sustain its metabolism and we would have certainly heard some sort of report or even anecdotal evidence during the Whaling boom of the 1800s.
I always love the "it looked like a great white but it was too big to be one" lines when they come up, I wonder if that's how an alien would describe seeing a pro basketball player or an abnormally large man walk by, "it looked like a human, but it was way too tall to be a human!"
I don't get any of the claims people make about The Meg. It's just a white shark but bigger and blacker? It's blood thirsty? It lives in places where it couldn't survive? It evolved to live where they couldn't survive, which makes it not a Meg anymore, but the Meg exists?
I dislike the depiction of Megalodon as an upscaled White shark, yes it has a similar tooth profile but I’d consider this convergent evolution due to possible prey rather than just an XXL Great White
im not into fishes/water animals that much but i just absolutely love how this guy is so passionate about it and how much he knows it’s so entertaining! ive been talking about him/his channel so much to my friends too and spitting out the random facts i learn from him😮💨
The video of the shark in the pond is of a White Shark in Massachusetts. It was taken by a shark enthusiast in Massachusetts a while back and it’s called Great White Shark in Massachusetts Pond on RU-vid. It made the news, but it was just a confused lil guy who was stuck, but eventually made its way out
Rather than focusing on trying to "rediscover" or find a extinct species of shark why dont they make videos on why we need to save our current living species
One thing I never understand about the conspiracy theorists claims that people are hiding stuff is just simply “why?” What good does hiding most of what they theorise about even do?
The tourist industrie world wide would collapse if the people would know there are Megalodons in the water. As soon as the Megalodon knows people know it still exist, it would immediatly start to eat everyone who even dips a toe in the water.
@@wolf310ii people are scared of sharks in general anyway a bigger shark isn’t that much of a difference. Plus they’re warm water surface sharks so it wouldn’t be much more dangerous than it is now
If Megs still existed, anyone who wanted them to continue to exist, would probably hide it. Humans kind of suck...i mean the US congress is using wolf populations in Northern Canada and Alaska, to determine if protections should continue for wolves in Wyoming and Montana...
It's the same thing as flat earthers. You go "but literally who would care enough to hide it" and their minds explode. "It's the government! they lie!" yeah ok but why about this? nobody would care. like, they think we'll lose our minds over a big shark in the ocean? when we already have great whites? it's just a bigger shark my man, I'm pretty sure we can handle it
i don’t know if you’ve done this.. but it would be funny for you to create a “megaladon/fake animal bingo card” where you watch these videos and see if you can get bingo… for example you could have a space that says “ Mariana Trench” and if they mentioned it in the video, you cross off the square!
@@theangryholmesian4556 Sorry, that is just what you are accustomed to. I can assure you, everyone who grew up in our metric world, has a very good idea how long 60m are. Just like you can easily grasp how long 200 feet are. I just hate being exclusive.
@@theangryholmesian4556 No, I didn´t want to argue for the superiority of one system above the other. My only point is, that you can relate to the system you know best. For you, that´s feet and yard, and for me it´s the meter. Totally ok either way.
To be specific, 60m is 196 feet. Also, there have been recordings of blue whales up to 110 feet (33.5 meters) long but they're commonly 70-80 feet (21-24 meters.)
to have a surviving population of an animal species you need at least 25 or so individuals, however to have a healthy population you will need over a thousand also side note: a study was conducted on where megladon sharks would have lived, and it showed they could survive in 1 degree water (Celsius) but preferred 20 degree water
I have full respect for AVNJ, his sarcasm, sense of humour and the pure amount of knowledge that he has, but he referred to Jason Statham as Vin Diesel in this video and I'm not sure if I can forgive that
second question if they are hiding it how do you know the info you get from "sources" aren't fake to throw us off anyways i mean honeypots are a thing in the computing world
Because of deductive reasoning. You don't need to know something to think of the possibility. (Not saying megalodons still exist, they are obviously extinct, but that's how conspiracy theorists "know", they deduce it and then try to bend/create proof to fit their narrative)
@@Rammkommando Ngl you could've picked 100 other things that normal people would understand lol. VERY few people not into computers/cyber security will get what you mean by honeypot, nor does bringing up the computer word make sense in this context. I mean you're not wrong, it's just very out of place and a very high-textile way to say "they're misleading us so we look in all the wrong places for all the wrong things"
Fun Fact: In german we say "Weißer Hai", which means "White Shark". I always wondered why in english they have the "Great" prefix there. Second Fun Fact: The movie Jaws is called "Der Weiße Hai" (The White Shark) xD
Apparently, the oceanic white-tipped shark also used to be called "white shark", so this one was called "great white shark" and the other became "lesser white shark". The oceanic white-tipped shark is no longer called that, so the "great" isn't needed anymore.
third fun fact: the shark is sometimes referred to as "menschenhai" or "human shark", not sure if thats from its size or because it supposedly eats humans
10:50 That’s the Swim-Swim shark, which is a very misleading name as, the Swim-Swim doesn’t actually swim, it jet propulses across the water at such high speeds, and is around the size of the Meg.
I think the first shark that you called " Greenland shark" was actually a white shark that got caught in a small pool in Massachusetts about 10 years ago. I remember the video.
We have salmon sharks here in BC Canada as well as the occasional "great white" shark. We are also keeping our large community of Megaladon sharks that live in south surrey a secret
The first clip is of a pacific sleeper shark which you are right that it’s size is greatly exaggerated but it’s still a massive shark. The low end estimate by Eugene Clark was 7m(23ft), however some people estimate it could have been around the 10m(33ft) range. I hate how people use this footage of a rare and amazing shark as proof for megladon. Sleeper sharks and Greenland sharks are fascinating, but hardly touched upon and need more attention.
The great white shark was called that because the whitetip shark was originally called the white shark (and later called the lesser white shark), but since the whitetip shark isn't called that anymore and hasn't been for a very long time, the great in "great white shark" is redundant.
@@FeddytheReal apparently anti-discrimination groups launched calls for it to be changed to “great shark” because it was seen as racial to refer to a shark as white and implies white things are great. They were also planning on launching a lawsuit/petition saying that it was a breach of the anti discrimination act.
@@demonic_myst4503 Not only that but we would have at least secondary evidence. They were BIG sharks that specialised in preying upon Cetaceans. If some still existed we WOULD have found at least a few whale corpses that showed signs of attack by a Megalodon even if we had never actually seen the animal itself. But there is nothing, Absolutely nothing.
It said the "massive shark" over the normal-sized crab trap was 60 meters. That's nearly 200 feet. The largest blue whale ever measured was 110 feet. He meant 60 feet
For why Great Whites are no longer called "Great": From what I can find online, the "Great" was added because another shark was also called white shark, which in turn became the "Lesser White Shark". Lesser White Shark is no longer used, so the great white has literally no need for the "Great" in its name.
I just found you like as I’m typing this and I love what you do like proving stuff to everyone and try to direct people not to go to those videos because l, fake, I support you
Hearing fairy tales from locals about the “black demon” reminds me of the time when creationists tried to look for a dinosaur that was supposedly in the Congo jungle, they went to an “isolated village”, and I think when the researchers asked about dinosaurs someone said they saw them on TV.
Yeah that dinosaur cryptid is called Mokele Mbembe, there’s also another dinosaur/mammal like cryptid often mushed alongside it called Emela-Ntouka. Both are essentially believed to have been mostly fabricated although there’s at least some minor evidence supporting at least the possibility that natives in the region consider one or the other legitimate but in truth I don’t think either are.
I wonder why it wouldn't make sense to assume, obviously not counting the obvious sensationalism, that if you see something that looks like a great white, but it is larger than a usual great white, that it might, and bear with me on this, MIGHT just be a freakishly large great white?
Ok I may be wrong, but at 8.30, not only do we not have a size for the machinery as reference.... But the fin moves past so fast that IF it were the size claimed the shark would be moving at comedic speeds right??
Me and my friend talked about how if the Meg was alive (it’s not and we agree on that) it would have to be a smaller sub-species of the Meg that evolved to be smaller, but even that’s also highly unlikely
a lot of people forget that they could have evolved that's why they don't appear it in shallow water i mean he is marine biologist not a paleontologist species tend to evolve we are talking about a shark that lived millions of years ago of course it should have evolved be real even meg hunting in shallow sea water is a speculation no one can be 100% sure we didn't knew dinosaur existed if it weren't for fossil a lot of people thought dinosaurs didn't have fur but now we know they had furs we still haven't explored the trench not even 20%
My Dad was a Marine Biologist....your views are the same as his (he had more "f'ing idiots" sprinkled in...lol). He was the Chief of our state's Fish & Game Department...he knew his fishies! lol....you rock
Most of us are of the same opinion. I am a Marine Ecologist/Evolutionary Ecologist rather than a specialist in Fish Biology but I am of the same mind as your father.
@@alganhar1 I asked him once about "Chessie" when i was younger...(I grew up on an Island in the Chesapeke Bay) He just laughed and said it was a good story.
yknow how we, as free thinking megalodon non-believers read the comments of “Ten recent sightings of megalodons, the last one may shock you” videos and see people like “ha yes, i knew it was real” and then we think ‘what poor misguided souls’? well do you reckon when they watch these videos they also think ‘what poor misguided souls’?
You see, I like how your assertive yet not condescending. I keep watching all these tiktok or twitter videos of people "disproving" things and calling ppl idiots or telling them to "get educated" yet are pathetically wrong. That chick who thought Rome never happened hurt my brain.
I’m still disgusted that humans today are still portraying sharks as evil monsters. >:( As well as trying to prove the existence of Megalodon and failing. 🤦🦈
The reason scientist called "Great White Shark", "White shark" is because there is no lesser or greater white shark since both is same species. On the other hand, there is movement that try or want to change the name "Great White Shark" to simply "Great Shark" because there is the word white.
"In Reality we have them gunned to fight the Russians" Mom, I knew I wasn't crazy! Zak just confirmed it... What you say Mom? He's joking? But Zak Would NEVER do that!
The reason the "great" is being removed is because the oceanic white tip used to be called the white shark as well. Being bigger, the great white got the great while the oceanic became the lesser white shark. But since the oceanic isn't called the lesser white shark anymore (or at least not much) the great is being removed cause that's just how naming works in science. Can't have a great white if there isn't a lesser white.
8:55 to add in the 1870s in Australian waters, near Port Fairy they caught a 37 foot long white shark. So it's not absurd that the shark in the video was just a white
No, that shark was 16.5 not 36.5 feet long, this was a printer's error when the jaws were catalogued for the museum in 1870, and the jaws are not particularly large (they are still in the collection, iirc).
4:18 I think it's because scientists know there's no greater or lesser white shark so they just call it the white shark instead of the great white shark. I literally looked it up tho so...
Fun fact: in Portuguese, great white sharks always were called 'white shark', as this is the literal translation for the species name 'tubarão branco'. Also, new subscriber here, after binging your livestream videos for a couple of days now. Keep it up, dude. Just stop trying to convince people sharks aren't scary, because they are (great whites and hammerheads, at least...)
pop culture has shaped the general perception of sharks of being more like dangerous monsters than wild animals, which has lead to them being severely hunted down and their population has diminished a lot, which is why people keep spreading the message that Sharks aren't that scary
I believe the best guess of marine biologists who study Greenland sharks is that they can live up to 450-500 yrs. The Greenland shark has one of the slowest metabolic systems in the entire animal kingdom; they live most of their lives in extremely cold water in near-total darkness, partly bc they live at great ocean depths, and partly bc most Greenland sharks move so slowly (bc of their slow metabolism) that copepod parasites called “ommatokoita elongata” attach themselves to the sharks’ corneas, making the sharks functionally blind for most of their long lives. This does not seriously impair the sharks, however, as scientists do not believe Greenland sharks depend on their sight to locate food. They are actually quite large sharks, growing up to 23 ft long. One of the most intriguing facts about Greenland sharks is that their flesh is toxic to most mammals.
The verb form of the noun “juxtaposition” is “JUXTAPOSE.” Just wanted to mention that, Mr Cute Fish Biologist, bc I greatly enjoy your channel, and don’t want you to be vulnerable to counter-attack--not even at the level of grammar--anywhere.
