How Big Was Megalodon Really? 

Big boi Really big boi

Megalodon was atleast a few meters long

"Are you sure about that?" "Maybe?"

@@afunnytheropod That was unexpectedly funny XD

@@afunnytheropod Megalodon was about the size of a shark

"If I had a nickel for every prehistoric enormous aquatic predator that had its body restoration constantly changed due to a lack of a definitive skeleton, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice."

@@primrosevale1995I know you’re just joking but Spinosaurus wasn’t an aquatic predator

​@NorskaFjordskaOfficial 🥸 I guess your not quite caught up on the recent theories of it being a semi aquatic animal

@@breyden9363 you said “aquatic”, not “semi-aquatic” also… wrong emoji

@@albatross4920 not as confused as spino We have a decent view tbh Not exactly like tyrannosaurus but we have a decent inclination

100% accurate

Can't argue with this science

Thank you for confirming my gut feeling about this topic.

You just study megalodongs 😅

You should do climate science dood😂

That must be why it went extinct 😔

This hurts to read

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Due to be re-named the Gary Buseydon.

Haha. Poor meggy, bet he whistles really well.

It's smaller than a Great Dane, though.

Somewhere between megayacht and miniature labradoodle.

Definitely bigger than a breadbox.

You know I think it actually might be bigger than a golden retriever though this is just a theory

Smaller than Clifford the big red dog.

epstein moment

If it is the specimen I think it is, it is a composite with some elements not even being megalodon. So don't worry too much about this one.

@@Paralititan”If”?

@@Timbo6669 Well I have seen one displayed at the Aathal private collection. But I think it is owned by someone else. That one is definitely a composite and I am unsure if the jaw parts are real or not.

@@Paralititannormally only the teeth are fossilised for sharks (since most of their skeleton is cartilage). There is not a single full specimen of a megalodon, therefore ALL complete fossil specimens are composites. The only real Megalodon fossils in existence are teeth and vertebrae, everything else are models based on the anatomy of the closest living relative of the Meg (I.e. the great white shark)

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Not very high!

Shark week, pretty high

Maybe keeping up with the recent paleontology news?

I was about to say the exact same thing lol

@@FossilFinder12 The last paper about it potentially being more elongated wasn't that new

Since wen is there not controversy on spinosaurus. It's like something new each year

Gotta love how both still manage to generate a lot of controversity. For Megalodon we don't have many remains apart from the teeth and vertebrae, and for Spinosaurus we don't actually know if the remains we have, are actually Spinosaurus. Given that the holotype was destroyed in WWII. These already included remains of maybe a different species.😅 At least for the new Moroccan Spinosaurid material we know quite well how it looked. Except for some important detail.

Agree

Wait n see

Loved the books. Couldn’t even finish the second movie.

@@chris77jay77The prehistoric Meg that ate the T-Rex and the largest villain of the 3 (Scarface) were hilarious lol. Basically Kaiju-sized.

Enjoyed the movies. Loved the books by Steve Alten

Wrong. Sperm whales are the rexes of the sea.

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 Oh you haven't been paying attention in class.

@@matthewdavies2057 It's true. They are the rexes of the c

They never met.

@@neo-filthyfrank1347Meg had the strongest bite force of any animal like Rex did on land

Sounds like a mahi mahi

like Erythrosuchidae

Dunkleosteus

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Goofy ahh emojis

and one huge tooth

I hope they never said they never exit or they're mammals after all

The megalodons in those films don't even move correctly. Even if they're dumb movies they're still hard to get serious enjoyment out of once you understand how these animals would actually move.

Megalodon pretty much confirmed preying on whale

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 Or once you read the books....the movies are not even close.

@@jritechnology The books are garbage too lmao

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 The first few are fun garbage though. I also thought the first movie was fun garbage (the second one was horrendous).

more than 80feet

Unfortunately I don't think his characters dies until later on. I could be wrong though as I accidentally started midway through the books soooooooo I have no clue 😂

Mega movie the 🦈 is 60m not 25m even

​@@evilcrashbandicootthetouho2753yellowstone hyperpredator study will release this year,that megalodon size could have been 27m+

@@ISURAH-484 his fossil just one jaw remembered this it called less size than killer whale 🐋 same what's happened with armored fish

Looks like Whoopi Goldberg lol

Google goblin shark

Yeah, really not the best reconstruction to use for the thumbnail, or in general

There’s way goofier reconstructions

whats weird is its the nerds who get all angry because it was so much bigger than any reptile

They are jealous of how succesful sharks are in ecosystem. Because they can never imagine or dream being succesful as sharks.

It's pretty astonishing; the speeds of the larger predatory Sharks!! Makos, Tigers and Bulls are like torpedoes when they want to be!!!

@@spaceace1006 great whites can swim at 25mph and have been seen bursting at 40 peak, so a slender hydro/aerodynamic muscular animal could easily do that your talking if its built close to a mako it could be faster than white sharks meaning faster than the average car on the road.

@@frasercake "Torpedo" is a Shark; either a Great White or Meg who was the subject of a mockumentary from about 15 or so years ago!! "Torpedo" is certainly an appropriate moniker for just about every Shark in the Mackerel Category!! Although it was just a depiction in the film JAWS, "Bruce" is able to keep up with the Orca while she's at full throttle...and with 3 barrels attached!!

This joke becomes real with dunk and what you said there wired fish with gigantic jaws bigger than white shark jaws and they still alive like the crocodile fish and the dragon fish , eels gives you feel they're reptiles more than fish

Let that sink in, the ectothermic whale sharks are as small as 40-60 cm newborns and can grow up to at least 18.8 m, perhaps theoretically up to 21.9 m (Ong 2020). The same study found a 10 m female was 50 years old and this species is thought to reach 100 years old. The regionally endothermic megalodon were as large as 2 m when born and the Belgian specimen, now estimated to have been at least 15.9 m, was 46 years old and megalodon is estimated to have got as old as whale sharks. Yup, it seems it was larger than whale sharks.

Really want people to think you're smart, huh

Remember baleen whales were much smaller when megalodon lived. The size of modern dolphins.

@@Luritsas A lot of them were closer to the size of modern orcas, but the point still stands.

@@MrGksarathy Orcas are dolphins

Basilosaurus was coastal, megalodon did not live in shallow oceans...

@@francissemyon7971 Then why do we find most Megalodon teeth in areas that used to be shallow oceans?

@@The_PokeSaurus Megalodon favored coastal areas just like white sharks today (which are not basilosaurus like in shape) and meg teeth have been found in remote abyssal deposits.

@@francissemyon7971 I'm rather confused on what you're trying to get at. Are you saying you disagree with the new reconstruction of Megalodon?

@@The_PokeSaurus Not at all, but it does not mean it was basilosaurus style either. Especially when you look at the study, they say "White sharks have a thicker vertebral column than short- fin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) and porbeagle (Lamna nasus) sharks at a comparable body length (Gottfried et al., 1996; Natanson et al., 2002; Doño et al., 2015) but with a similar mass (Kohler et al., 1995)." This suggests that smaller vertebral girth is not necessarily indicating lighter weight in those sharks. The meg vertebrae are robust and still suggest a robust fusiform body, not almost serpentine like Basilosaurus, AFAIK.

The decline of Megalodon from unrelated causes could have created the niche that great whites filled rather than through competition. It's all just speculation at this point 🤷‍♂

Bulldogs are the result of selective breeding. Such things don’t happen naturally

titan frogfish sounds like some dope creature from subnautica

​@@fauresfaures4314 omg that would actually be such a cool concept for a creature in movies or video games lol

That would be interesting, but the vertebral column find implies it can't be shorter than 11 meters. And with there being much larger individual vertebrae, it's likely bigger.

Absolutely possible, sharks have evolved into so many weird forms it's difficult to be sure of anything

Looks like the older estimates were correct this whole time(as far as we know).

​@@william3100muuch like Kanga and Malta then. For many years the 23 ft+ length measurements/estimations were debunked by those who thought they knew better. Now it is considered likely that the original 23ft+ lengths were in fact reasonable. In spite of this, white shark maximal length is still generally accepted to be 20ft, when the reality is that a maximal length of 25ft is entirely plausible, that's 25% longer than currently accepted. Applying the same logic to a 25m Meg takes it to 30m+, a freaking big fish....give or take a white shark 👍

​​​@@ftgoggi4715So you are telling it could reach blue whale lengths .Then wait for svp 2024 this October-November something special going to happen for megalodon...A big specimen apparently called yellowstonehyperpredator ,a studygoingtoreleaseaboutit .Probably could reach 25m++

​@@ftgoggi4715you heard about yellowstone hyperpredator

Yellowstone hyperpredator might be 28m ,but will see​@@ftgoggi4715

Mammal bias, both deserves hype.

@@francissemyon7971 It was a personal opinion. I do have a shameless mammal bias, though, especially towards predatory whales.

@@MrGksarathy Haha indeed.

Tbh Meg has nothing unique its only a big shark Livyatan on the other hand is not just the upscaled version of some modern day animal.

Yeah yeah, whatever, you can go like Livyatan all you want, it wouldn’t stand a chance against the megalodon

Why disappointing though? As said in the video, the newest studies suggest it was even bigger than previously thought.

​@@freyala024Not bigger actually but with a different body design: more slender and elongated silhouette rather than the 'great white shark' like design which we had previously thought.

​@@RajRaja-wo3uuit was still extremely robust, though. It's fossilized vertebrae indicate that. So it WAS bigger than previously thought.

@@william3100 It's all speculative. Nobody's sure as to how big it was as there are varied size estimates based on different methods which leaves a lot of room for ambiguity. However, based on the discovery of the vertebral column, the shark was around 11 mtrs. Recent studies about the ancestry of great white sharks reveals that great white sharks evolved from a different group of sharks and it wasn't related to megalodon at all and megalodon belonged to a group of ancient sharks called otodontidae which went extinct. These ancient group of sharks had a more slender built. So, all these years, we have been wrong in believing that megalodon looked like great white sharks. It's almost impossible to calculate the body size of megalodon unless we find more complete remains.

@@RajRaja-wo3uu slender but still very robust. Fossilized vertebrae we actually found show it was still a robust animal.

In Jurassic Park 7 a Meg swims too close to a mangrove swamp and finds he is not the meanest thing in the neighborhood as two murder hands reach out, and out.

Lol

Bruh Spinosaurus isn't the biggest carnivorous dinosaur

@@monsterzero521 Who said that?

@Albukhshi Top 10 largest theropod dinosaurs 2024 Weight= size 1. Tyrannosaurus rex- 12.8m & 12.6 tons 2. Giganotosaurus- 13.5m & 11.3 tons 3. Mcraeencies- 12.1m & 9.7 tons 4. Spinosaurus- 14.7m & 9.3 tons 5. Mapusaurus- 12.7m & 9.2 tons 6. Saurophaganax- 13m & 9.1 tons 7. Carcharodontosaurus- 12.4m & 9 tons 8. Sauroniops- 12.6m & 8.3 tons 9. Tyrannotitan- 11.7m & 8.2 tons 10. Bahariasaurus- 13.4m & 7.8 tons

Ish

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​@widodoakrom3938 around 90 feet

@@ISURAH-484 too big

​​You will see soon.pin this comment .At the end of this year,there is an article releasing about this megalodon being 90 feet ​@@widodoakrom3938

So many scientists in the comments..

If megaladon and tuna are both considered fish then so are humans

nice chatgpt comment

@@josephlongbone4255 "Among heaven and see, I alone am the honored whale." Cue Livyatan in the background.

Orcas can’t even take down a blue whale. What makes you think they are take down a 70 foot 100 ton shark?

@@SublimeNumbaNine How big do you think sharks are? No shark has ever approached a blue whale in size.

Megalodon is extinct.

Probably because both land predators would lose automatically to megalodon, which was 10x bigger with a far bigger bite force than both of them.

No, they came to speculate that the meg had differences in appearance, they didn't realize anything. Literally everything besides the teeth and their diet of whales is pure speculation. That's why they make 1000 videos like this every week.