Even among its extinct relatives, Megalodon was unequalled in length and mass. [livescience.com]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I've actually been lucky enough to see and hold a fossilized tooth from a Megalodon, the tooth is bloody huge and about the size of the average adult man's palm with the edges serrated like a steak knife.
That was about 23 years ago when I visited the Shark and Maritime Display at the Museum in Port Lincoln, South Australia.
Blimey, if one those sharks took a bite at a human you'd be not much more than a canape at formal dinner party.
Triphid
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Some fringe theories with circumstantial evidence suggesting something like it is still swimming in the deep oceans, now that's a scary thought for some solo navigation sailor to have nightmares about.
Surfpirate
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I seem to recall when the Scientific world stated that Coelacanths went extinct at the time of the dinosaurs but had to a big back-flip when a living one was hauled off Sth. Africa.
We know far less about what dwells in the depths of the Oceans, imo, than we do about Universe around us, so who can say for a 100% certainty what is still living down there.
Plus I seem to remember seeing a Documentary about 15 or more years ago, made in Australia where the front portion of a Hump-back Whale washed up on beach in southern Western Australia and it had a number of massive shark's teeth still wedged into its flesh, teeth they said were far to big to come from any known adult sized Great White Shark.
They even went as far as doing a side-scan sonar research job on the vast region of the sea bed in area and found a massive underwater canyon too deep for even their best equipment to go down into, so anything could be living down in those depths for all we know.
I mean, we get Crocs here in Australia that are anywhere from a few metres long to ones around the 4-5 metres in length, fish in the Darling River known as Murray Cod that I have seen, personally, ranging from a few feet in length to one in particular that measured out at 5' 9 and a half inches in length and weighed in at nice, heavy 65lbs dripping wet and still flapping.
Mind you I'm by no means saying that something akin to 'Nessie' exists but as we all know some species have adapted to changes in environments, etc, but reducing their overall size, etc, and sharks have been around more than long enough to do that imo.
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