Far from perfect but vastly better than most videos featuring Megalodon. Loved the Eorhincodon inclusion since it's very hard to find size estimation even online, though in my opinion the olive green color is most likely off, if I was to guess I'd say it was transitional between a modern Whale Shark and it's closest living relative, baby zebra sharks (babies tend to be morphologically more basal than their adults and in this specific case on can see how juveniles' zebra-pattern is more similar to whale shark's nightsky pattern than adult zebra sharks' cheetah-like pattern).
and there are still a lot of species and sub species not listed here, cant blame the creator for that the video would be about 6hrs long lol great video tho.
most animals have a crazy amount of sub species. Because species don't suddenly appear. All the time theres mutations, so species that exist for a long time have hundred variants or more
Fun fact about greenland sharks, they have been found to be one of the longest living animals in the world, with one individual estimated to be over 400 years old. They reach sexual maturity at around 150 years old.
I was like: "Ok bro, you need to stop playing with the sharks and go home. When a next to you shark is as big as a mini van, i think is safe to say that you are pretty much boned if they notice you." 😅
Deadly????? You're more likely to die from a vending machine accident than killed by a shark. Plus, if a shark bites you (not including the bull shark) its trying to figure out what you are. Dogs use their noses, cats use their whiskers, sharks use their mouths. They'll take a quick bite then they'll swim around you then most likely swim off.
I’m mostly amazed at how they got all these extinct sharks here, let alone get them all to line up without moving. Massive credits to the diver, camera man and the rest of the team who put together this amazing video.
Extremely appreciate the time taken to produce such quality work. Its fun to observe the morphologic changes over evolution. Besides, really like the background opera.
... You know, of all the songs one could play when showing us the largest sharks in history, I did not expect an instrumental version of Dschinghis Khan's Moskau.
The fact that so many of those huge extinct sharks had spines on their fins kinda concerns me. Many small fish have similar spines as a defense mechanism to not get eaten whole...
Chances are they used them for combat but these are not accurate due to the fact they are just theories on how the shark would've looked since we only have fossils
I’m bored, so here are fun facts about sharks: -The small scales on sharks are known as “Denticles”. They are very sharp, and different species denticles look very different to one another under microscopes. -The top 4 most dangerous sharks, based off attacks on people, are the great white, the tiger, the bull, and the oceanic whitetip Shark. -tiger sharks have been found with things such as pillows, armour, number plates, and even land animal remains, likely thrown in by boats. -there have only been a few megamouth sharks ever washed up, and one is at the Fremantle Maratime Museum in Western Australia. I have seen it lots of times myself. -many scientists think that the bull Shark is more dangerous than the great white, because they live close to shore, near humans, and in murky water, where it is very difficult to see them. They usually escape unseen after attacks. -tiger sharks and sand tiger sharks are not related. The great white is closer related to the sand tiger Shark than the actual tiger shark. Funny coincidence, huh? -only 6 known species live dominantly in rivers. They are very rare. -the smallest Shark, the dwarf lantern shark, is the size of a banana, but the whale shark can grow up to 20 metres, the size of 2 school buses. -there have only been a few great whites successfully put in captivity, and survived. Most great whites die the first few days of captivity. -tiger sharks actually get bigger than great whites on average. -cookie cutter sharks take bites of things that are very small, like mackerel, but also massive creatures like whales. They even bite underwater cables and SUBMARINES! -cookie cutter sharks are actually parasites, as they feed on living creatures, and they rarely die after attacks, just missing a bit of flesh. Anyways, that’s all for now, hope you enjoyed😊 Edit: I’m still bored, so I’ll try and name every shark I can- great white, tiger shark, bull shark, sand tiger, frilled shark, horn shark, wobbegong, epeualette, cookie cutter, lantern shark, basking shark, megamouth, shortfin mako, longfin mako, goblin shark, catshark, dogfish, sawshark, greenland, roughshark, salmon shark, porbeagle shark, six gill shark, sleeper shark, seven gill shark, spinner shark, dusky shark, reef shark (all types), great hammerhead, scalloped hammerhead, speartooth shark, crocodile shark, lemon shark, night shark, whale shark, bronze whaler, gummy shark, angleshark, port- Jackson shark, weasel shark, zebra shark, leopard shark, thresher shark, blue shark, and I’m done, I can’t think of any more. Hope you enjoyed, comment a shark that I missed (alive today)😊. Thanks
We are fortunate to witness 2nd largest shark. Fun fact: Sharks only leave their teeth as fossils, so we don't know exactly what extinct sharks really looked like.
There's several that have been preserved full body, like hybodus, orthacanthus, falcatus, etc Bear gulch formation weird sharks, etc. but yeah wayyy rare. Vast majority are just known by their teeth yes
@@Dman9fp there are many microscopic features on them which can be examined to reveal muscle attachment points. This gives an idea of the size and placement of the musculature, and forensic reconstruction.
Its crazy how many (even big ones) sharks are there that I never heard about. And I watched my fair share of ocean documentarys. Almost feels like every documentary shows the same 5 to ten species of sharks, and noone bothers to show more species.
Well, location of very important. If you are watching a documentary about the Pacific ocean you won't see something like the Greenland shark. Many sharks and fish stick to one single location as that's where their niche is.
@@thomaslikescars Yeah probably. Also it might be that some sharks are just very hard to get footage of. blacktip, hammerheads and tiger sharks seem to be often near reefs or rock formations where theres plenty of other stuff to film in case they dont show up.
Towards the end, I thought all larger sharks were extinct, so I was surprised with the Basking Shark and the Whale Shark being still living sharks and making it that high on the list.
@@AYO_TF_Sideswipehe meant after they all showed up, there’s always a transition to where the scuba diver swims away from all the smaller sharks and shrinks, that was the very last section. But yeah, I didn’t expect the great hammerhead shark to be larger than the great white!
@Xmaster-bh8wb It's not. Some of these are innacurate. That Great Hammerhead was probably a big female, and the great white was probably a small male. Great white is 3rd biggest shark. Great hammer head is like 6th whih is below the tiger shark
The Greenland shark is my favorite. They’re so slow and docile that you kind of forget that they could end you in one bite should they be hungry. They just move slowly to conserve energy. They are more than capable of moving quickly to catch their prey.
I wouldn't say docile, there's cases where they've actively hunted live seals and even stalked people under the ice. Reply made: 4:37 AM Tuesday, May 24 2022
I still remember the guy in Maine that jumped in the harbor to study a greenland shark everyone said was there. It was just “doodoodoo” while he measured it and then disappeared into the fog of the water and as he was going back to the dock it sped by his head and he paused and confessed “I always thought these sharks were slow and docile, if it wanted me it could have me and I would be powerless.” Think it was the same documentary where they uncovered they skin animals with their teeth in a corkscrew pattern, like skinning an apple or orange in one go. Researchers kept finding seals especially but also a polar bear with the same wounds
@@kyoswkyosw1216 It's terrifying when you think about it for a moment. I mean, many animals that experts believed were slow and docile turned out to have a rather scary side. For example, many people didn't believe the Slow Loris was a deadly predator until people saw it feeding on smaller vertebrates. People even believed sloths were lazy, docile animals. However there was a well documented report where a friendly dog ran up to a sloth and sniffed it where the sloth slashed the throat of the dog. Even when there's a newborn, female sloths are pretty fast and chase after would-be predators. There's a video on RU-vid where a person tried to check up on the newborn sloth and the mother kept chasing them around and she was not moving at a slow pace either she was actively going after them. One moment they turn and got to the door the next thing before they knew it mother sloth was right on their tail. Reply made: 7:04 PM Wednesday, June 1 2022
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="767">12:47</a> The Great White or otherwise known as Carcharodon carcharias is easy to miss, if you think or expect (as I did) that it would be in the final category for size. Just putting the time stamp in to really hammer in how it wasn't near the end of the video!!!
great hammerheads are actually critically endangered and not least concern ( <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="780">13:00</a> ) they get hunted for their big dorsal fin a lot and their population is decreasing worldwide
I do feel the need to point out that Stethacanthus technically isn't a shark. It's actually a holocephalian which is the group of fish chimaeras belong to. Still a cool looking fish though and very shark-like in appearance.
Same with the helicoprions - they're an extinct member of the eugeneodontida, with the only (very distant) extant relatives being holocephalians too. It's cool how the appearance of sharks is so pervasive that other groups are automatically placed with them!
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="262">4:22</a> one time I was swimming in the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston, and I swam out to about 10 feet deep because I'd let myself sink and push off of the bottom for air. While I was wading some water I saw this small shark, maybe 3 or 4 feet long, leap up out of the water right next to me and do like a 1080 before coming back down into the water. It was so epic and memorable, but I wanted out of the water after that lol. I thought it was just having fun or trying to get away from me but looking it up on the Wikipedias - apparently it is a feeding strategy.
they most likely wouldn't hunt or go directly for you unless you did something to make them aggresive towards you. that or they're just really really hungry, even then, most animals avoid humans because of how tall we are
@@davidgordy7766 This is an outdated depiction of the Helicoprion jaw ;) to our current understanding, the spiral of teeth was inside the mouth, mostly covered by flesh in the jaw
Sharks are beautiful in my opinion even they can be dangerous. The whale shark is just a big friendly giant where the great white shark is like a grumpy old man with cool teeth. The megalodon is creepy though. The rest of sharks that do exist are pretty cool.
@@altanmehmet5159 they don’t get hate they get killed for there meat and fins infact some of the sharks on this List are dead because of humans and hunting
@@Gerboturbo0 nah they do get a decent amount of hate it's partly the fault of media popularization of sharks as blood thirsty killing machines but in an ironic term of events media is now helping to make people realize that sharks aren't as dangerous as they thought. Although they still are dangerous. Seeing how stupid gen z is I hope they don't spread some stupid misinformation about sharks being not dangerous at all
@@Gerboturbo0 no I think they mean that sharks have a reputation of being blood thirsty human killing monsters you know due to movies and stuff. A reputation they don't really deserve cause sharks kill like 6, 10 or 15 people a year, we kill millions of sharks. Most due to pollution and hunting. But I won't be surprised if alot of those sharks died due to humans being afraid of sharks and so they killed them. Sharks are also the reasons so many are afraid of the ocean etc.
@@altanmehmet5159 Sharks get bad rap for being predators. Nowadays, tho, schools teach us that sharks are just curious creatures, often mistaking humans as their natural prey.
@@EduSanjuan777 yea no, the scale of the diver is just wrong, look at the bullshark for example 11:00 lets say the diver is 2m tall, the bullshark is shown as 7m long.
@@wuestenfuchsxy Yeah, I wonder if the creator used the head to tip of the fin by mistake for their 180cm baseline, instead of head to heel. That would add almost another 40cm or so.
A lot of it has to do with how sharks fossilize and how hard it is to study them. It’s VERY hard. 90% of what we know from prehistoric sharks come from their teeth. And it’s VERY easy to find megalodon teeth (in Comparison) Because they were so widespread and abundant
I don't know why but I just love how you have Moscow going on in the background near the end of the video but besides that I did not realize how large basking sharks were thank you
I never thought that goblin sharks can exceed the size of a great white and a great hammer, thanks for giving me a nightmare scenario that will be waiting in my sleep! edit: bruh, these replies 💀💀💀
Well, they're as long but really a fraction of the size, great whites are heeaaapppsss bigger in terms of weight which what should really concern you. A giraffe is taller than a T. rex but that doesn't mean they're bigger, same principle applies here.
I find sharks interesting for the same reason I find crocodiles interesting, they have existed for millions and millions of years, and yet, they haven't changed a whole lot, which is a testament to how efficient they've been throughout their existence
i mean... they grow until they die from it. they literally get so big that they cant afford to exert energy into getting off the bottom floor to hunt so they end up drowning. in the 1800's gators were easily 20+ feet all around on average
I knew there were smaller sharks but I had assumed that they were the outliers, but turns out that most sharks are still big just not as monsterous as nat geo and other media tend to portray them. Some of the larger ones could definitely bite my head clean off but at least they look cool or cute. 🥰
I live in a country where blue sharks swim around. (Never saw one tho) Didn't know they were this big...They look like 60cm on photos *Nah they're 2m long*
One thing kinda cool but kinda saddening is the whole ptychodus genus of shark (which were giant sharks with flat teeth made for eating crustaceans) are all extinct.
@@bloodythirstdeath8277 Have you not seen a zebra shark or a lantern shark? Besides, sharks RARELY attack people unprovoked (two dozen shark attacks a year at most).
Makes me wonder...how many sharks on this list, that we believe are long gone, may still be down in the depths? How many new species are out there waiting to be uncovered? When I was in the second grade, there were around 350 species identified that still lived. Now, the list is over 720. We still have so much to learn. This is one reason why I love Sharks!
Unfortunately, with sharks specifically it's very clear to see when they went extinct, they simply stop shedding their teeth and so they stop showing up in the fossil record, then it's just seeing when the sediment was layed. So no, Megalodon is not hiding anywhere, the are no helicoprions floating about, it's sad but that's just how it is, we will almost definitely discover completely new sharks though! No need to look at what we don't have and be sad, look towards all that we may discover!
None, because the reason why most big species went extinct was because their was no where near enough Prey for them to sustain such a size. Even then, most sea creatures that live in such dept are small due to the pressure being way to stressful for bigger creatures, they’d simply be crushed. Unless you’re a blue whale or any other whale species that are so big that such depth can take time to crush. Whales have to eat a lot of krill tho.
I have loved sharks all my life. And know a lot about them but this definitely taught me about multiple sharks I never even knew existed! Thank you for making this list! Must have taken a LOT of work!
This is a really good video, the only really noticeable flaw I see is that the genus for Megalodon is outdated (the current genus is Otodus) but I don't know when that change was made.
Love Moscow playing in the background, I vibed the whole time. Pov: You see a helicoprion swimming toward you with a ushanka on and holding a bottle of vodka
Crazy how sharks (as a group) have survived several extinction events over a span of 300 plus years. Yet now some of them are getting squad wiped for practically no reason in the grand scheme of things
Imagine living through several extinction events just to get collectively wiped out by a bunch of dumbass hairless monkeys who are somehow so obsessed with making your limbs into soup they are willing to drive everything that remotely looks and tastes like you into extinction
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I love the orchestral version of Dshingis Khan Maskau towards the end. Awesome song and that was a cool rendition. Great video all the way through. Thanks for this my friend!
That’s because of people giving extant animals common names. Binomial nomenclature is used on todays animal too. like the white rhino is Ceratotherium simum or humans having the name Homo sapien. It’s just more simple to have one globally used name for science rather than all the 100s of names used by everyday people like pumas are also called mountain lions, cougars, and panther, which can get confusing.
Dá muita pena em saber que muitos desses animais estão extintos, enquanto outros caminham para um mesmo destino sombrio...amo tubarões ❤️❤️!! Belíssimo trabalho...💙💙 A propósito, amei a trilha sonora ..
A very thorough and interesting video, I have been interested in sharks for over 50 years so I was very impressed to see species I was unfamiliar with. Thank you for including the Snaggletooth Shark Hemipristis it is my favourite, you might consider adding the two fossil species of Hemipristis in future versions. And I like the fact you are bringing awareness to the public of how vulnerable these amazing creatures are.
Yep they've been my overall fav if I must have one... Also it's be nice to see more tiger sharks, they were actually sort of diverse in the ancient past (species eaglesomi, aduncus, mayumbensis, ancestral latidens, maybe there's more... I know Physogaleus wasn't in the tiger lineage but also sizeable & impressive to some degree I bet)
Everyone is familiar with the Megalodon, but I didn't realize there were so many other species of gigantic extinct sharks. Good thing some of those nasty looking giant extinct predators aren't still swimming in the oceans because I already have such an unhealthy (and unrealistic) fear of a shark attack that I don't like to go past waist deep in the ocean and if those beasts were in there, the only ocean I would see is through my car window while driving past! 😆 BTW, kudos to the creator of this great video. I can only imagine how much time it took to research it and create the visuals.
amazing how the overall body shape of sharks has not really changed over the millions of years. and sad to see that so many are endangered and we all know the causes but yet do nothing to stop it. stopping it would not be that hard either but we let greed and politics get in the way. many of the sharks of the past were so beautiful as well.
Fun fact: Helicaprion isn't actually a shark, it's an extinct shark-like eugeneodont fish, which in itself is an extinct order of cartilaginous fish. Keep *SHARK-LIKE* in mind
“so here’s this little freak, he’s this big. yeah, he went went extinct about 300 million years ago… welp, into the shark pile with you!” *wet slapping noises as i throw this shark on top of all of the other every single shark*
This video was very well done. I work with fossils (most my work done with marine fossils) and all of the names I’ve seen were correct. Some really interesting and not well known sharks on here with the actual names, very impressive
What probably shocks me most is the fact that not ONCE did "Extinct in wild" come up.. They're either alive or dead.. there's no giving or taking.. no protection sadly for these marvellous creatures 😔
I think it kinda awesome and hilarious that the largest 2 current living sharks ie basking and whale are peaceful, plankton eaters like blue whales. So cool you can see evolution in the major shark groups/families over time. Would be cool to see an exact Evo chain of sharks. Good job tho!
That's because we don't know what they actually looked like- it's largely guess work because most of a shark's skeleton is cartilage, which is a soft tissue that doesn't fossilize well.
Very closely related (no duh right) so it's fair to say this one found success in being smaller. Could be unchanged for millions of years like the coelacanth
A lot of the sharks towards the end of the video are 7-10m length and 1-2t in weight. Me thinks someone got tired of researching each individual shark dimensions so just changed the name 😂 but other than that cool vid! Also a 7-10m long shark only weighing 1-2t would be built like a cheese string 😅
So nice to see underrated fishes get a size chart. But the title should be all about Cartilaginous fish if its going to include Ghost Sharks (Holocephalians), Skates (Onchopristis and friends).
Absolutely fabulous, so entertaining. If I may ask what was the music played during the second grouping, sounded like an epic or Opera? Whatever it was I absolutely loved it!
My favorite is the whale shark since I've seen one up close. I remember having shivers since i didn't expect it to be big. We were lucky since we paid to see it in the ocean but cannot guarantee that you will see one.
