The blimp model has now been deboonked. Megalodon was actually lean.
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024/5079-megalodon-body-form
The blimp model has now been deboonked. Megalodon was actually lean.
The blimp model has now been deboonked. Megalodon was actually lean.
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024/5079-megalodon-body-form
What are the implications of picrel?
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This is why the Liopleurodon was better.
But really, seems like kind of an inconsequential ‘fact’.
The blimp shit was always moronic because how the frick could that thing catch a whale?
Which looks better?
I've seen this before and it makes no sense, as if great whites cant be lanky.
Wasn't Deep Blue pregnant?
That and she’d been gorging on a whale carcass literally minutes before
That shark wasn't even Deep Blue
that's kind of the reason I don't get the new "images" some were fat, some were lean, just like every other animal in history. even fricking eels.
They mean that it was skinnier on average. They used to assume that it was more robust than a great white isometrically scaled to a similar length.
More vertibrae just means it was longer, we still have no way of telling if it was lanky or chonky.
read the paper
It's about the diameter of the vertebrae rather than the number. Cretoxyrhina had a high number of vertebrae but they also had a similar diameter to a great white shark.
Dromaeosaurs had feathers by the way
Paleontology is such a bullshit field. Fake science
We got other vertebrae that's over 50% larger than the biggest ones from the more or less complete specimen. Isn't there a 24-25cm diameter one? Also seem to remember that the speculated total vertebrae count was not abnormaly high either.
Do they know the age of the individual with the proportionally smaller vertebrae
Just reading what the shark people are saying, it seems this reconstruction is pretty shaky and makes a lot of assumptions
Is it based on a direct fossil find? because if not then i don't care
I think it was something about the people who came up with it assuming more vertebrae = skinny elongated body which isn't necessarily the case, but I know frick all about sharks and haven't read the paper so that might be off the mark
So how long is it now? is it back to 20 meters?
Did anyone unironically belive the blimp variant of this thing even existed?
Yes. It was actually the common view for quite some time.
Paleotwitter did, they are insufferable
No they didn’t
Paleoartists will immediately latch on to anything deemed new and subversive. It's why they must be fought on all fronts, because ultimately they have no standards. They just want to undermine whatever exists before.
If a prominent paleontologist came out and said that Tyrannosaurus in fact was toothless, deaf, and crawled on the ground like a worm; paleoartists would eat it up.
>subversive
how ?
In this specific example, making it look like a stupid blimp goes agains the common idea of the "cool and bafass shark"
*badass
just because you don't find it "cool" doesn't mean it's "subversive"
I never said that, idiot. I said it's subversive because it goes against the common view of the animal, that's what subversive means
that makes even less sense
just because a new model based on newer analysis and information don't agree with previous models don't mean it is "subversive"
>zero evidence
the paper that suggested the model presented evidence, that was valid at the time, in favor of that interpretation
It being overturned due to later analysis and new information don't change it
You're arguing with a known troll, best thing to do is hide thread and just move on.
>everyone i dont like is one guy
>saging the thread out of butthurt
NTA just came here to lol @ you
Anyway who cares if homielodon was fat or skinny, still a big fricking shark
Blimp megalodon was based on nothing, someone just said "hey WHAT IF" and surprise surprise, it was wrong
I am not paleoschizo, not everyone who disagrees with modern paleonthology is him
>not everyone who disagrees with modern paleonthology is him
true, but everyone who spells it "paleonthology" is definitely him.
I'm afraid i am an ESL
>I'm afraid i am an ESL
yes, so is paleoschizo
that particular misspelling is one way we ID him (you)
yeah sure
can we give the guy who has paleoschizo living rent free in his head a name?
what about paleoschizoschizo
When there is zero evidence for an "updated" alternative interpretation and the motivation for it is specifically BECAUSE it is less "cool", then yes it is subversive.
Subersive in this context means different enough from established media so as to get exposure, attention and clicks when they post their "art"
They all ate up the moronic half-exposed dimetrodon spikes because of Trey's misinformation. Those people are worthless.
That's what I grew up with so I never questioned it. It just being a bigger great white seemed reasonable
megalodon you sneaky fricker
Creative art like this is why I keep coming back here
So what does this mean for 100 tonne megalodon?
It appears that the length increased but the mass decreased.
>big length, small mass
look at that, The Megalodon was a bird
...i dont like megalodon anymore...
He just like me fr
NOOOO THE SCIENCE WAS SUPPOSED TO DISPROVE THE AWESOMESAUR
they kinda took it to the opposite extreme.
wrong stretch, that's the regular white shark
this is closer to what they describe
Imagine my shock when paleotwitter's fanfiction turns out to be wrong