Just How Big Was The Megalodon?
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Please make a video about quetzalcoatlus.
Please Make Videos About Elephants!!!🐘🐘🐘🐘
Maybe Please Make Videos About Dinosaurs Like Sauropods Like My Favorite Number One Childhood Dinosaur The Mighty Brontosaurus Or The Second Favorite Childhood Dinosaur The Brachiosaurus!!!🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕
This ruined the pacing of the video for me tbh
isn't Megalodon the leader of the Decepticons
no that's Meggriffin
Yup ! And that's also one of Godzilla's rival (Megalon) in 1973 .
*Megatron.
This comment caught me so off guard it made me laugh, congrats on winning the funny award of all time
No.. Thats megaman
Just when I thought I knew everything there is to know about Megalodon, I learn that their extiction essentially enabled whales as we know them. Pretty amazing how a single species was a gatekeeper for that niche, and then we got predatory whales so massive they likely would've given Megalodon a run for its money.
Killer Whales could be whales filling the carnivore niche from their own ranks. Looks like Humans are not alone in their capacity for treachery.
@@tonytaskforce3465
I was thinking the same thing. Orcas seem to be filling that role, but as pack hunters instead of lone assassins.
@@tonytaskforce3465 another theory had proto-orcas being among the causes of megalodon's demise. Like their modern-day cousins, they would've tag teamed a meg, and disabled it by ripping off its fins, and flipping it upside down to cause tonic immobility. Following which they'd chow down on the helpless shark.
@@deeya That may be, but the orcas would have to evolve in the first place. A bit of a struggle with this Megalodon monster cruising the seas.
@@tonytaskforce3465 Orcas evolved between 5.6 - 2.6 million years ago. Megalodon went extinct 2.6 million years ago. Coincidence?
Slight correction, cartilage VERY RARELY fossilizes and we have Megalodon vertebra as a result, though they've only been found as singular pieces and never as a whole or even partial spine. The sheer size and thickness of the parts are probably the only reason they managed to fossilize in the first place, rather than degrading like the rest of it.
Also because it was a special type of cartilage called calcified cartilage
Being the ultimate predator can be a gamble. On the one hand, after growing to a certain size, nobody will mess with you. On the other hand, if something in your environment changes, it's harder to change along with it fast enough. And thankfully for the whales, (and us,) the Megalodon, couldn't keep up.
Odd too... Their juveniles should have been small enough to survive...
So breeding must have been the issue
(Also disease and parasites can't be measured or underestimated...)
@@TragoudistrosMPH that's not really how it works. For a species to change metabolism they need time to adapt to changes. Even if the younglings could've survived those first years, their bodies are still programmed to grow huge because they hadn't had time to adapt to the less abundancy of food
I'm fairly certain if they would have been around today, they would still have been made extinct by us. You can't beat us humans, except if you're a virus or a disease. Then you can really destroy us all.
@@lyzder7298 I mean yes and no. Lack of food definitely will stunt growth in many species. I don't know that it does in sharks though.
@@TragoudistrosMPH : I thought that since their food supply dwindled so fast, that they ate too many of their young for the species to survive.?
I still don't get the people who think it's still alive. They're all dead, we would've found more teeth if they were still here. Now, some of them might say "well no dummy it's in the Mariana Trench or something!" they couldn't survive there, nor is there anything to eat, plus it couldn't adapt as fast.
Edit: Oh also don't argue with people in the comments. They're either attention seeking trolls or close-minded people that don't understand anything you say, it's just not even worth it to respond
People don’t realize a species won’t last forever, someone will always take your place
Because the ocean is a huge place and many parts of it is still unexplored.
@@HamHamHampster Unexplored just means that humans haven't personally been there, but that doesn't mean we don't know what is living there. The truth is that most of the ocean is a "desert", there's nothing to cling to since you're too far from the seabed, thus there's no coral, no fishes, no sharks, and especially no megalodons. Actually, you'd have a better time being lost in an actual desert than the open ocean, there's literally nothing to eat.
I saw a Megalodon at the local waterpark, it was basking on on a lawn chair sipping margaritas.
I could very well see there being a giant herbivore or something that eats small things out in the ocean somewhere, but megalodon, a creature that's fairly well documented in lifestyle and habitat that we know are not sustainable in today's environment? Nah.
Another important cause of their extinction is the rise of Great White and other similar sharks, which out competed the juvenile Megalodons for resources. So, it was not just the adult Megalodons who lacked suitable food source, but the juveniles too had a steep competition.
This isnt a cause, its an assumption, considering that the shark had been experiencing even less competition during its extinction, I have high doubts that competition had anything to do with it.
Megalodon and Great White existed side-by-side for millions of years.
@@MOEMUGGY Are you talking to me or the other dude?
Hell no, megalodons were 12+ feet out the womb, imagine that, thats the smaller end of the size for a nigh adult male white shark.
@@HypeJutsu 2m =/= 12 feet
I wonder how many ancient dudes were strolling on the beach am found a Megaladon tooth and tried to use it as an axe or hatchet?
With the serrations on them, they'd make awesome knives for fibrous materials like rope. Split one in half and you've got 2 knife blades
Monster Hunter vibes
Interesting point. I’ve never thought about that
baddest axe in any village
Ohh it's about time!! 🦈
7:35 Not every fossil belongs in a museum. Megalodon teeth are so plentiful in certain areas, you can scoop them straight out of the river.
One of my favorite extinct animals, I will never forgive discovery for that fake megalodon documentary they did.
at least you haven't fallen for a fake mermaids documentary...
So Amazing.
Is it just me or does anyone else get to the end of Animalogic videos and find themselves wishing they were longer?
😄👍
I wish I was longer
@@brendandriedger1113 🤦♂️
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No
Plz talk about quetzalcoatlus the largest airborne predator
Animalogic. Like everyone here, Ive got interest in nature / wildlife and Ive learned quite a lot from this channel. So thank you for teaching us.
One of my faverorite channels.
I'm loving the Paleologic streak you're on! keep it up!
Animalogic you are the best source for animal information!!😃
What to talk about next? The historic 3-feet wingspan dragonflies.
Titanoboa
they got to 4ft in some specimens ,that specimen a saw in a photo measured with a tape...its hard to find that particular photo but iv saw it and have it stored in the files...
I think people would be interested in a hoatzin video. They're so weird and cool.
Ah yes the king of sharks
Animalogic, Can you do an episode on Whaling? (Animal industry could be a spin off series. GDP and environmentalism).
(Bison, dodo, beavers, seals, stellar sea cow)
Depressing, maybe, but important to know!
A recent paper that calculated the energy expenditure of Megs found that they could go for ages on a sizable meal. They could eat an adult Orca (or rather, Orca sized animal) in as little as three bites and then run on that energy for weeks if not months.
I thought they were being serious about the ocean, that place is like a nightmare thunderdome.
Id love you to do my favorite Dinosaur Ankylosaurs!
Love your contact guys keep it up! Much love!❤
As usual, great stuff!
Thanks for the link to Endel.
Awesome artwork 👍as always
Do a video on the Livyatan. Another one that would be cool would be the Deinosuchus the giant crocodile and why it went extinct.
What about the appearance of Orcas being tied to the extinction of Megalodon?
orcas and their extinct relatives were rather small back then due to fierce competition with animals like the megalodon. Megalodon would definitely beat them up
Only by orca fanboys
Waiting for the usual comments like "We've barely explored the oceans so we don't really know if Megalodon still exists or not!!" 🤦♂
@Adolf Hitler not Megalodon, that's for sure
@@endlessmotion2255 -🤓
but it is
Cant wait for AVNJ to react to this.
Muy interesante el tema, muy bueno el contenido
Truly amazing 🦈🦈🦈🦈
Have they seen the black demon ?????
Honestly, I feel like Orcas would’ve bodied the megalodon, the same way they body modern baleen whales.
Haha no man look at the size difference
@@cobra1854 Orca's hunt comparably sized prey all the time. Grey Whales, Humpbacks etc. A pack of Orca's bodies a Megalodon easy.
@@georgebennett715 megalodon is such an ocean behemoth. Youre probably gona need at least 40 orcas to take down one adult megalodon.
Could you do a video on prehistoric whales like Livyathan or Basilosaurus?
If I had found those teeth on the beach as a child, you bet I would've called them monster teeth, and it doesn't seem too far off the mark. Megalodons may not have been fantastical beasts but to me they're sea monsters all the same 😄
Great information!! I have that Megalodon Action Figure
I would love to see an episode on Cryolophasaurus or on Andrewsarchus
There don't appear to be any in depth guides about Great White sharks on CZcams surprisingly. Maybe you could do one?
Super sick
For whatever reason, sharks did not take the role of marine apex predator following the extinction of the great marine reptiles. Cetaceans were the first to grow into that niche. Only after Basilosaurus died out the sharks found the right conditions for massive species such as megalodon. Like basilosaurus, they were unable to adapt to changing ocean conditions. I think that if they had shared the same seas, Sperm whales and orcas would have challenged them, and won.
They never was because
during the mesozoic
they were inferior to
the marine reptiles.
So Megalodon became extinct roughly 3 million years ago, just when the current Ice Age began and when the Americas joined via the Panama Isthmus.
yep and the whales (their prey) became smart enough to swim to the poles and the megalodon was not used to the climate change, ...also the orcas which kill sharks to this day could have hunted in mega pods to take down megalodons.
@@mentalasylumescapee6389Modern orcas haven't evolved by then prehistoric orcas where much smaller dolphin sized creatures ...
О, давно не видел скелет акулы, выглядит круто
AMBULOCETUS!
I totally saw the last part coming when you said the ocean is peaceful 😂
Megalodon made the great white shark look like the "meh white shark"
Damn, that's an insult 😂
This thing was an actual real life sea monster.
@ChanceChannel
If Luca encountered The Meg he be scared senseless.
Anyone else think she was about to say “….and your watching the Disney Channel!”
8 year old me loved this video even more.
Have you covered the Pinta Island tortoise before? I find the story of Lonesome George really sad :(
Amazing how experts know what Megalodon nurseries where like when they don't even know what Great White nurseries are like today...
You should talk about the Microraptor because it looks like a mixture between a crow and a dragon
Could Megalodon take an adult Blue Wahle? Would it only win sometimes or most of the time? Would the meg even try it, given it was used to smaller whales?
Only one way to find out.
I'm more interested who would win between Orcas and megalodon since orcas hunt in pack
@@shivpatel5413 time to genetically engineer monster sharks.
@@sundae6610 orca wouldn't dare.
3 million years ago eh? That means some of our ancestors might have seen them and told horror stories at campfires.
Leviathan...
Were humans even exploring the oceans at that time?
@@openingshift7070 Not without canoes.
Humans were first on earth 2 million years ago.
@@DanceFacility Austropelithicus existed 4 million or so but they are barely Human...
me, at first: ?what's that screen-right?
me, as the video continues: ?huh?
me, a little further into the video: ooo, i see what's going on. ?how's it going to end?
me, near the vid's end: okay, the host wasn't chomped, and the "Gotcha!" wasn't a total surprise, but i still enjoyed the show.
Ok- after what was found up in Canada, the mummified duck billed dino, it feels only right to honor it by doing a video on edmountosaurus! If not, any duck Bill will do!
Idk I think humans are more scary... We took down blue whales with literal sharp sticks and wooden canoe. Then today we literally hunt like the Predator in the movie with heat vision and all.
Great ending lol
From the start of this Animalogic serie videos about prehistoric species, so far, there only very popular and well known species both by the public and the scientists that were promoted.
(Here, it's about a real celebrity so this giant shark is famous !)
But, you know what, it's not so far a problem at all !
Sure, should be cool to promote lesser known creatures, but the popular ones remain always interesting because we discovers again and again news stuff about them !
And these videos can learn us on these New discoveries on them.
And so far, every of them are really enjoyable !
The Megalodon is so ultra popular, well know by thé public and the scientists, is so a celebrity, and the number of high knowledge we already have of him due to the crazy number of studies on him on every aspect of him (appearances, diet, behavior, habitat) made that one single video lesser than 10 minutes can resume this formidable beast.
But it's alway nice to see a video on him !
Next talk about either the Great Auk or the Dodo please!🐧🦤
Nice video
Have you done a video on livyetan (sp?)?
If not, please do.
Idk if u guys have done this already but u should do a video on remoras if u havent
00:11 That's the aquarium in Napier, NZ!
yeeeEEESSSS! (I love sharks and I love "dinosaurs") x0x
Me too. There is something awesome about the strength and power of these creatures. It gives one the sense of the power of nature and what it is capable of creating.
Megalodon teeth are badass! 🦈🤍
"Megalodon is the scariest sea carnivore."
To me all sharks (be it megalodon or not) is scary.
True, why do people want the megalodon to still be alive today? Aren't the great whites scary enough?
Ichthyosaur next.
Thanks for that ending by the way- never skiing now.
~_~
Do the tree climbing croc from Australia’s
Cool shark
The megalodon can literally snort me.
So much fun sitting trough commercials before a short YT video, only to get more commercials in the video itself. Fantastic! 🙄
2:27 thats what she said.
"Even though these fossils belong in museums" lady there's so many of them that scientist already stopped caring.
How about doing three "Top 10 Apex Predator" videos? One each for land, sea & air.
The girl was so pretty, I couldn't focus on megalodons
The biggest killer in this planet is the Human.
That was a bit stupid adding a human scream to the footage of the jumping shark. The movie Jaws is responsible for so much irrational hatred towards sharks, you're just perpetuating that.
I love the ocean
Can you make a part about dodos?-)
Way to get a lotta mileage outta that shark toy footage.
What’s crazy is during that time a megalodon was not even close to the biggest predator in the waters
It was by far the biggest.
@@chalkandcheese1868 Livyathan
@@chalkandcheese1868It wasn't by far the biggest. Livyatan was pretty close in size.
@@chalkandcheese1868easily top 2 though.
I love sharks I feel a little bit of shark hate here
Can you make a mosasaurus video next please?
My favorite with t-Rex 🦖 💚
That ending tho...
Over and over again among many carnivores across time and space, once you reach the top there is nowhere to go but down. 🤔
Substitute carnivor with top predator and you'll realize we humans are in that position...
@@magilviamax8346 Amen.
@@magilviamax8346 Humans have very diverse diet though.
@@godofthisshit Being an omnivore is handy, but it won't save us from being on top of the food-chain when the balloon goes up.
please talk about anomalocaris or tiktaalik 🙏
Make a video about the leviathan!
Does anyone think there scared everytime they see sharks now after they watched this video
How about the rise of orcas how they developed and how their new culture is leading several pods to hunt great white sharks.
The stupid sleep advert raised my stress levels
If megalodon still existed it would become smaller so it’s food menus could expand
2:30 guys we done it we reached a new level of length its huge
I have a megolodon tooth it's still sharp and has enamel
im billing you for my brown pants at the end of the vid!
Imagine if this thing exist today, bro I would even be too scared to watch finding nemo
2:26
When you realize it was the largest macropredator ever!!!
Superpredators, microagressions!