>Actual body fossils of the Megalodon have been finally found
>Literally nobody gives a shit.
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>Actual body fossils of the Megalodon have been finally found
>Literally nobody gives a shit.
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Feathers wouldnt appear in the fossil record, so this shark could have been both water and air based
what if all those ancient "extinct" creatures are just regular animals with strange mutations like a shark with gigantism or something
>mutations in populations leading to new species
sir Darwin, you may be onto something !
(Lamarck is still the best tho)
There is no living shark with teeth like say, the megalodon, to stay on topic. No living shark has a 1 or 2 inch meg tooth or anything like it, they are notable for being unusually thick for a shark tooth. Not to mention the avalability of 4-6 inch teeth in deposits dating 2-4 million years ago.
So, which posters are the worst on Wauf?
>The dolphin frickers?
>The Paeloschizo's?
>The cloaka yearners?
This thread got destroyed by the dolphin frickers who feel like their desire to imregnate cetacians means they have to shoulder their ancestral hatred of sharks, so I'm leaning on them being the worst. But the constant schizo threads about feathered dinos are up there.
Never entered a bird fricker thread, and they tend to stay in their threads so I have no opinion on them apart from my base disgust.
all of them are equally deserving of the rope
Post the paper you trannies
Which one?
The one about this supposed nearly complete megalodon spine. You gays had me excited for nothing.
This is the most /K/ Thing i have ever seen... My sides...oohhh GOD ther is blood in the water maby AIDS.
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wiener
it's just a big fricking shark
who cares
nobody gives a shit.
because paleontology is a pseudoscience at best
are there pics like this for other animal fossils?
You mean something like pic related?
When your head is the same size as your body
>gets rekt by killer whales
bow to your mammalian sensei
It technically got rekt by tiger sharks and great whites. Orcas didn't exist yet.
lmfao amazing thread anons
now it looks like a real animal
hehe chube
(You) to (You)rself later:
>pulls out checknote
>"Thread Derailment Failed Attempt No. 5,486,322"
>*scribbles autistically into checknote*
>"Thread Derailment Failed Attempt No. 5,486,323"
Dinotrannies control the flow of paleontology news.
Okay, Wauf. Megalodons are back, they exist, enough so that they're not considered endangered and humans aren't allowed to hunt them. How does this affect the oceans?
Immediately start preying on large whales and competing with Sperm Whales/Orcas. The latter basically drove them to extinction in the first place.
Jesus christ orcagay I've agreed with you for months about orcas being based but you're getting annoying when you keep peddling this blatantly incorrect information that just takes a quick search to debunk. Megalodon went extinct because of polar glaciation causing sea level drops which restricted them from accessing nurseries.
That's because Orcas caused the ice age with their echolocation-derived psychic abilities
I too enjoy spreading misinformation on the internet
We already found a near complete fossil of one of its relatives and it didn't look like that.
We also have a snout bone which was blunt and rounded, more so than any modern relative aside from the megamouth shark.
What is the best snout shape for such a large predator ? Submarine-like or torpedo-like ?
It depends on its hunting method. Megalodon frequently rammed large prey so it was hypothesized to have a blunt snout even before fossils were found to prove it.
I see ! I can clearly imagine a Megalodon ramming a prehistoric whale to death
Maybe they also ate squid, like sperm whales
damn i hate sperm whales
Literally the biggest chadimal god ever created.
So basically like a tiger shark?
Great whites also frequently ram large prey.
The "large" prey of great whites are wienered water bears though.
Would that necessarily be a good comparison when you consider the size difference? What does that mean for the 20 metre 100 tonne estimate that was done recently
In regards to fin size and placement, I'd assume that it would help come up with a clearer image of what a "basic" otodontid may have looked like.
On the other hand, estimating the size of megalodon is still a challenge considering the disparity in size of the two animals as well as the occupation of different niches.
So it was ROTUND and COMPACT
Zamn i did not expect sharks to weigh so much
Jurassic Shark
Human silhouette needs a MH greatsword now
A weapon to surpass Metal Gear
>G*mers only want one thing and it's disgusting.
give it high heels
looks like a JRPG enemy
>Digimon, digital monsters
it needs high heels
that wouldn't be realistic
As. You. Wish.
tank you
You're welcOgum
It's beautiful
Yes yes well done Slytherin, however...
>imagine dying to eagles
Eagles the size of fighter jets as wingmen for a flying boat piloted by a planet with a sword that shoots lasers.
>blah blah blah
He died to birds he's a shitter
Stay salty glaurung.
>another tolkien lizard
All of your fantasy shit gets wrecked by the ultralodon
>he doesn't know about the doubleultramegalodonplus
eagles are the mary sues of tolkienshit
>The terrible roar of the titanic dragon vibrates the night, made excruciatingly hot by its demonic breath, as if the damned of the underworld howled in unison
>This impressive show of force unfortunately did not allow him to avoid the two "Minutedragon", modified LMG-30Gs, and Trident II (code name "Ancalagoon") launched by the Megaultrasupranovalodon
>Only one tooth was found three months later with a hobbit impaled on it
>The tooth had surprisingly been propelled by the explosion from Mordor into Shire
My bloody sides. You owe me new ones.
Plesioth ? Does this means the megalodon can hipcheck its prey from oceans away?
ftfy
>ftfy
god I wish that were me
fake and GAY
we all know megalodon is supposed to look like pic related and not whateve THAT is
Sorry, sweetie, but is what they actually looked like. Computer simulations and paleoart matter far more than hard evidence. Trust the Science!
>what they actually looked like
Not enough F A T yet
Ok, what's the "hard evidence" then? Can't wait to see your Tree of Arguments that inevitably leads to "TRANNIES TRANNIES TRANNIES WOMEN WOMEN WOMEN" when you're finally backed into a corner.
Didn't took you long to get angry
esl moron
Fake and gay
Absolute
REAL SHARKS HAVE CURVES
Not enough feathers.
>modern sharks are built like torpedoes
>ancient sharks are built like submarines
Kino.
Wow it's almost like there's some efficient shape for traveling through water
Just spinal columns. The article released 11 fricking months ago; you're basically a year late.
So we know at least how long it was?
No