The Megalodon (or Carcharodon Megalodon) is a pre-historic creature who stalked the open global oceans of the Paleozoic Era. This beast was a much larger version of today's Great White. The monstrous demon if the deep went extinct around 2.6 million years ago that time is included in the Cenozoic Era. The Epoch it died in was the mid-Miocene to Pliocene. The Megalodon first appeared 510-425 years ago during the Paleozoic Era or the "Age of Fish". The diet consisted of large whales of the time period, for example, the Livyatan an 18 meter (59 feet.) Killer Whale. The Megalodon being 20 meters (Approximately 65 feet.) it has no trouble dispatching and eating its prey. Considering its size and ferocity this beast was the apex predator of its time
and had nothing it needed to fear for nothing could make it the prey. Hypothetically the only predator a Megalodon could ever have is a larger Megalodon. Much like their believed evolved descendants, Great Whites are only eaten by a larger more powerful Great White. Facts surrounding the Megalodon include: It was the largest predator to ever exist, Its teeth can reach over 7 inches, It had the strongest bite ever recorded, Several nurseries have been discovered, and it had 256 teeth in 5 rows.
In the year 2002 a bizarre looking theropod dinosaur fossil was found in China (Xu). It challenges the way researchers have been thinking of theropods and other dinosaurs for a long time. In the Sahara desert, the oldest hominid skull in the world was found that same year. These are just two of many discoveries that have challenged the way we perceive the ancient world.
Paleontologist L.B. Tarlo said that it was very difficult to ascertain the length of Liopleurodon. This was so because no complete skeleton was found. He then predicted from the skull, the skull was approximately one-seventh of the total length of the body. When we apply this ratio to the largest skull specimen of L. ferox, the total length of the body comes out to be a little more than 10 meters. The normal size from this calculation would be around 5-7 meters in length. The weight of it was estimated to be around between 75 to 150 tons. The more recent study and the finding of the complete skull of Liopleurodon. It showed the total size of the body was actually five times more the length of the skull. Thus, reducing the expected body size of it furthermore. The maximum size that a L. ferox could reach is just up to 6.4
Rapidly evolving throughout the late Pleistocene to the early to mid Holocene, hunter-gatherer-fisher societies hunted megafauna creatures in a systematic and ethical way. When one species migrates to a different ecosystem, that species is not usually recognized as a threat to other species. Survival, during the late Pleistocene and Holocene era, was one of the most important aspects to life. Any organism, regardless of size, living within their environment had to stay alive and reproduce. During these two eras, it seems...
This image is what a majority of people believe to be the shark. They believe it to be the bloodthirsty sea monster that appears in countless works of literature and films, but science says otherwise. The classic picture painted by the minds of sailors returning from years at sea come from imagination and sharks’ violent methods of hunting and mating. Sharks fear humans as much as humans fear sharks, and most sharks, particularly the “man-eating” great whites, only bite humans because they mistake surfers for seals. In earlier times, the ocean was a source of mystery and adventur...
First, the period depicted in this tale takes place about 20,000 years ago. A time when dinosaurs no longer roamed the earth but megafauna, large vertebrates, was abundant. Vertebrates in this group inc...
Orcas, or killer whales are majestic giants of the sea. They are actually the largest type of dolphin. They have long black bodies with distinct white patches near their eyes. A killer whale can be up to 32 feet or more in length, and weigh up to 12,000 pounds. Females are a bit smaller, but live longer (Gorman). The name “killer whale” apparently came not because it is a vicious whale, but because it preys on whales. They do not have any natural predators, and they are considered the “top dog” of the ocean. Not even the great white shark stands a chance against these superb killers. “Unlike sharks, killer whales are cautious hunters, sometimes spending hours harassing a 1,000-pound sea lion so it can easily be drowned” (Francis). Orcas use many hunting tactics that are unique to their species, which is what makes them invincible.
The Killer Whale is a part of the toothed whale (odontoceti) suborder. The toothed whale suborder is consisted exclusively of porpoises, whales and dolphins that are born with teeth, instead of baleen plates. The Killer Whale is the largest animal in the dolphin family and is the only known to attack sharks, whales and other marine mammals.
Jurassic Park is a science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton which was published in 1990. The book follows a mysterious island that is inhabited by genetically engineered dinosaurs created by a bioengineering firm. The story lets us watch as visitors land on the island at the request of the rich billionaire who owns the island and the bioengineering firm, which is named InGen to revel in the wonder that they have created. We follow all the miss-steps until all is lost and the island has to be destroyed. The novel is one to give us insight into what can happen when we try to play god and foreshadows what possibly could go wrong by taking that next step into genetics that could be considered reckless and dangerous. Crichton lets us in on an evolutionary tale that questions biological genetic advancements and what cost come along with possibly stepping over the moral line of right or wrong. The genetic engineered dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are dangerous and are an ill-advised step into the evolutionary development of our planet. Crichton lets us in on an evolutionary tale that questions biological genetic advancements and what cost come along with possibly stepping over the moral line of right or wrong and how we use knowledge and technology to continue to move forward.
For the first known citing of one of these creatures, you would have to go back to November of 1861, when crew members of the French dispatch steamer Alecton spotted what appeared to be a large sea monster off the coast of the Canary Islands. The crew threw harpoons at the creature, but those would not stay in the flesh for long. When the crew got close enough to put a noose around the creature, the rope tightened and cut through the animal, causing most of it to sink to the bottom of the sea. The crew, however, managed to pull the tail of the creature on board, and bring it back to the French Consul. From there the tail and a report about the creature made its way to the French Academy of Sciences.
Megalodon are gigantic sharks the size of a greyhound bus with teeth the size of the palm of your hand or maybe even bigger.The Megalodon was the largest shark and predator that ever lived it grew up to a maximum of 18 meters. The teeth of this massive shark reached 7 inches long and only a few teeth have been found that surpass that length. The Megalodon would eat almost anything it came across but its diet mostly consisted of large whales. In order for it to survive they ate an average of 2500 pounds of food everyday but eventually things changed and they weren't able to eat as much anymore.
Megalodon is still alive to this day because their has been giant sea animals bitten in half like a shark,whale,and there is footage of the Megalodon. The Megalodon went extinct 2.6 million years ago but I love the megalodon because it is the most ferocious predator. Meet the biggest predator in vertebrate history. The Megalodon shark is most known as the most gigantic shark to have ever lived on our planet and one of the largest vertebrate predators in history. Megalodons traveled the seas from 28 million years ago until 1.6 million years ago when they were wiped out during the Pleistocene Extinction. Megalodons were as we know gigantic and humongous. Some of the teeth found from this great predator have been maybe 17 centimeters in total height but most are between 3 to 5 inches. Reconstructions using jaws and other bones suggest that Megalodons most likely reached maximum lengths up to 54 feet around 3 times larger than Great Whites.
The Late Devonian mass extinction that takes place at the Frasnian-Famennian boundary is considered as one of the Big 5 mass extinctions (McGhee, 1998). Life at this time experienced huge losses among many different marine groups such as: brachiopods, molluscs, trilobites, conodonts, fish, as well as other organisms. In order to pinpoint a cause for the mass extinction both physical and geochemical processes have been looked at. The usual suspects such as ocean anoxia, volcanism, icehouse climate, and even bolide impacts have all been considered throughout the literature (Belka and Wendt, 1991; Joachimski and Buggisch, 2002; Joachimski et al., 2009; McGhee, 1998). In some of these studies,
Really there wasn't much of a drive to find the first fossils discovered. When they were first found, that's all they were, found. As stated by Sues in “European Dinosaur Hunters” (1997) most of the first fossils discovered were usually fragments found in quarries. They just started showing up when people dug holes or built things. But once it was realized by the scientific community that these were the petrified remains of creatures that once lived, they became more and more valuable, and they actually became sought after. Paleontologists are always looking for new fossils of new animals to add to the list of discoveries. Like explorers in the dark depths of the jungles of South America,
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The remains of these dinosaurs were found on every continent except Antarctica thus proving that they were very widespread. Sauropods had the most long lived life span when compared to other animals. Their existence expanded up to 100 million years. This was a very long time, especially for such a large animal to maintain itself (Klein, 2011). However, after many years, they began to die one by one due to the challenges that presented themselves in the wild. For example, vegetation became scarce. They began to starve and became an easier prey to predators. Eventually, this led to