>we know next to nothing about the morphology of this extinct animal but it probably swam extremely fast, much faster than any living relative

>we know next to nothing about the morphology of this extinct animal but it probably swam extremely fast, much faster than any living relative
Why are they like this?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I believe we have found a vertebrae of megalodon, in addition we have found a juvenile's body specimen awhile ago. It's not a ton but its something.

    There are also were a number of papers made on the subject of size and its body.

    "In 2021, Victor J. Perez, Ronny M. Leder, and Teddy Badaut proposed a method of estimating total length of megalodon from the sum of the tooth crown widths. Using more complete megalodon dentitions, they reconstructed the dental formula and then made comparisons to living sharks. The researchers noted that the 2002 Shimada crown height equations produce wildly varying results for different teeth belonging to the same shark, casting doubt on some of the conclusions of previous studies using that method. Using the largest tooth available to the authors, GHC 6, with a crown width of 13.3 centimeters (5.2 in), they estimated a total length between 17.4 to 24.2 meters (57 to 79 ft) with a mean of 20.3 meters (67 ft).[10]"
    Paper : https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2021/3284-estimating-lamniform-body-size

    Making a megalodon: The evolving science behind estimating the size...
    The giant prehistoric Carcharocles megalodon (or Otodus megalodon for some researchers) was the largest predatory shark to ever swim in Earth's seas. Scientific evidence points to megalodon having lived between 16 million and 2.6 million years ago, going extinct at the end of the Pliocene Epoch when the world's oceans were much colder than today's.
    https://phys.org/news/2021-03-megalodon-evolving-science-size-largest.html

    Here are some other papers
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328465547_Body_Length_Estimates_of_Fossil_Lamniform_Sharks_derived_from_Summed_Width_of_Associated_Dentitions

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308891065_SIMPLIFYING_THE_METHODS_-_BODY_LENGTH_ESTIMATES_FOR_CARCHAROCLES_MEGALODON_USING_ASSOCIATED_TOOTH_SETS_AND_JAW_WIDTH_RELATED_DATA_FROM_GREAT_WHITE_SHARKS_AND_MAKOS

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/bTScSsP.jpg

      Objectively correct.

      New size estimates for Megalodon put it not only as the largest toothed predator, but just as 2nd largest animal.

      It also evolved before, and outlived Livyatan.

      Only thing livy could do would gang up on meg, but it'd be like a group of dolphins taking on a great white.

      Concerning its size, using a larger dataset of great white sharks seems decrease the overall size estimates. Although, the estimates are still massive nonetheless.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >machinist blueprint for a prehistoric animal
      But why though? Why such specific and unrelated tolerances?

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it's cool and contrarian gays who don't like it are gay
    i mean it's got mega in the name and it's a big ass shark, super fightin shark all the way man

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Because it's badass

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >no whale shark

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it literally says in the picture on what basis the data is based, can you not read?

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Livyatan could still catch it

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Outcompeted, outlasted, preyed upon, dead genus, inferior predator.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        They actually went extinct because their prey (megalodon) starved into extinction.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Holy cope

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Both of them went extinct because of smaller sharks outcompeting during times of environmental change and decreases in marine wildlife diversity. They are both cuck species.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            One was a chronospecies, one wasn't. They are not the same.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              The chronospecies lineage ended with them being outcompeted to extinction.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        based and truthpilled

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          both died (afaik anyway) because of a loss in diversity among whales due to climate change. specifically a loss of smaller whale species that they could predate upon. and I remember somewhere saying that it was specifically because only migratory whales survived because of the food density in the arctic, so the only food available eventually would leave for colder water then the meg could handle.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Objectively correct.

        New size estimates for Megalodon put it not only as the largest toothed predator, but just as 2nd largest animal.

        It also evolved before, and outlived Livyatan.

        Only thing livy could do would gang up on meg, but it'd be like a group of dolphins taking on a great white.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    How would it catch anything if it was slow as frick?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Bigger = more muscles = faster

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nautical performance equations are pretty well known. They probably screwed up a variable, but the most efficient cruising speed is something you can figure out via math if you’ve got a good 3D model of a fish and it’s musculature.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Seems like it would be a huge waste of energy to move that fast while cruising

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      OP is complaining about paleontologists making an exctinct animal cooler without evidence, not making them gay with evidence though. how is this relevant?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        A lot of paleontologists still just make shit up.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Based modern paleontologist calling kids moronic

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Why aren't Blues, Whitetips, and Silkys the fastest? You would think open ocean sharks would need to move quickly all the time just to cover more area.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Energy conservation, probably.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah that makes sense. I suppose they can ride currents out there too.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They can just cruise instead, thus the huge fricking fins on the whitetip

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Because it'd be really cool if they did.

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