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Mature male megalodon may have had a body mass of 12.6 to 33.9 metric tons (13.9 to 37.4 short tons), and mature females may have been 27.4 to 59.4 metric tons (30.2 to 65.5 short tons), assuming that males could range in length from 10.5 to 14.3 meters (34 to 47ft) and females 13.3 to 17 meters (44 to 56ft). [40]

Sharks often employ complex hunting strategies to engage large prey animals. Great white shark hunting strategies may be similar to how megalodon hunted its large prey. [98] Megalodon bite marks on whale fossils suggest that it employed different hunting strategies against large prey than the great white shark. [57] a b c d e Shimada, K.; Chandler, R. E.; Lam, O. L. T.; Tanaka, T.; Ward, D. J. (2016). "A new elusive otodontid shark (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) from the lower Miocene, and comments on the taxonomy of otodontid genera, including the 'megatoothed' clade". Historical Biology. 29 (5): 1–11. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2016.1236795. S2CID 89080495. No. It's definitely not alive in the deep oceans, despite what the Discovery Channel has said in the past,' notes Emma.

Eastman, C. R. (1904). Maryland Geological Survey. Vol.2. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University. p.82. Interestingly, mammal’s teeth are among the most varied in the animal kingdom. They are heterodontal; each mouth possesses a range of different teeth suitable for different tasks from grinding to slicing to piercing and lifting. Compare this to the spike and needle-like teeth that populate the mouths of fish and reptiles. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Gottfried, MD; Compagno, LJV; Bowman, SC (1996). "Size and skeletal anatomy of the giant megatooth shark Carcharodon megalodon". In Klimley; Ainley (eds.). Great White Sharks: The Biology of Carcharodon carcharias . San Diego, California: Academic Press. pp.55–89. ISBN 978-0124150317.

Proportions of megalodon at lengths of 3m (10ft), 8m (26ft), and 16m (52ft), extrapolated from extant relatives, with a 1.65m (5ft 5in) diver Dr Lambert and his colleagues had speculated that such a fierce creature might once have existed on the basis of discoveries of individual teeth. a b c d Brignon, A. (2021). "Historical and nomenclatural remarks on some megatoothed shark teeth (Elasmobranchii, Otodontidae) from the Cenozoic of New Jersey (U.S.A.)". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 127 (3): 595–625. doi: 10.13130/2039-4942/16440. If they can’t find any cause of your enlarged teeth, they may recommend that you visit a cosmetic dentist. A cosmetic dentist can tell you what treatment options can improve the look of your teeth. Orthodontics a b c d Ehret D. J.; Hubbell G.; Macfadden B. J. (2009). "Exceptional preservation of the white shark Carcharodon from the early Pliocene of Peru". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (1): 1–13. doi: 10.1671/039.029.0113. JSTOR 20491064. S2CID 129585445.a b c d Pimiento, C.; Balk, M. A. (2015). "Body-size trends of the extinct giant shark Carcharocles megalodon: a deep-time perspective on marine apex predators". Paleobiology. 41 (3): 479–490. Bibcode: 2015Pbio...41..479P. doi: 10.1017/pab.2015.16. PMC 4541548. PMID 26321775. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Renz, Mark (2002). Megalodon: Hunting the Hunter. Lehigh Acres, Florida: PaleoPress. pp.1–159. ISBN 978-0-9719477-0-2. OCLC 52125833. A 2015 study linking shark size and typical swimming speed estimated that megalodon would have typically swum at 18 kilometers per hour (11mph)–assuming that its body mass was typically 48 metric tons (53 short tons)–which is consistent with other aquatic creatures of its size, such as the fin whale ( Balaenoptera physalus) which typically cruises at speeds of 14.5 to 21.5km/h (9.0 to 13.4mph). [54] In 2022, Cooper and his colleagues converted this calculation into relative cruising speed (body lengths per second), resulting in an mean absolute cruising speed of 5 kilometers per hour (3.1mph) and a mean relative cruising speed of 0.09 body lengths per second for a 16 meters (52ft) long megalodon; the authors found their mean absolute cruising speed to be faster than any extant lamnid sharks and their mean relative cruising speed to be slower, consistent with previous estimates. [53] Sculpture in the Museum of Evolution in Puebla, Mexico The researchers do not know why this ancient whale died out. They speculate that the ecology and environment changed so that the creature had to change its feeding habits.

Pliocene of Italy, [90] [114] and similar forms reported from the Pliocene of England and South Africa, [90] indicating the capacity of these dolphins to cope with increasingly prevalent cold water temperatures in high latitudes. [90] These dolphins were assumed to have been macrophagous in some studies, [22] but on closer inspection, these dolphins are not found to be macrophagous and fed on small fishes instead. [114] On the other hand, gigantic macropredatory sperm whales such as Livyatan-like forms are last reported from Australia and South Africa circa 5 million years ago. [115] [116] [117] Others, such as Hoplocetus and Scaldicetus also occupied a niche similar to that of modern killer whales but the last of these forms disappeared during the Pliocene. [118] [114] Members of genus Orcinus became large and macrophagous in the Pleistocene. [114]Iani was an ornithopod, a group of mostly bipedal herbivores that also includes famous examples such as Iguanodon and Tenontosaurus.

Davidson, J.P. (2000). "Historical Point of View: Fish Tales: Attributing the First Illustration of a Fossil Shark's Tooth to Richard Verstegan (1605) and Nicolas Steno (1667)". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 150: 329–344. JSTOR 4065077. The genus Carcharocles may be invalid, and the shark may actually belong in the genus Otodus, making it Otodus megalodon. [5] A 1974 study on Paleogene sharks by Henri Cappetta erected the subgenus Megaselachus, classifying the shark as Otodus ( Megaselachus) megalodon, along with O. (M.) chubutensis. A 2006 review of Chondrichthyes elevated Megaselachus to genus, and classified the sharks as Megaselachus megalodon and M. chubutensis. [5] The discovery of fossils assigned to the genus Megalolamna in 2016 led to a re-evaluation of Otodus, which concluded that it is paraphyletic, that is, it consists of a last common ancestor but it does not include all of its descendants. The inclusion of the Carcharocles sharks in Otodus would make it monophyletic, with the sister clade being Megalolamna. [7] In 2008, a team of scientists led by S. Wroe conducted an experiment to determine the bite force of the great white shark, using a 2.5-meter (8.2ft) long specimen, and then isometrically scaled the results for its maximum size and the conservative minimum and maximum body mass of megalodon. They placed the bite force of the latter between 108,514 to 182,201 newtons (24,395 to 40,960lbf) in a posterior bite, compared to the 18,216 newtons (4,095lbf) bite force for the largest confirmed great white shark, and 7,495 newtons (1,685lbf) for the placoderm fish Dunkleosteus. In addition, Wroe and colleagues pointed out that sharks shake sideways while feeding, amplifying the force generated, which would probably have caused the total force experienced by prey to be higher than the estimate. [51] [70]During the Pliocene, larger cetaceans appeared. [100] Megalodon apparently further refined its hunting strategies to cope with these large whales. Numerous fossilized flipper bones and tail vertebrae of large whales from the Pliocene have been found with megalodon bite marks, which suggests that megalodon would immobilize a large whale before killing and feeding on it. [51] [57] Growth and reproduction Collection of teeth of juvenile megalodon and C. chubutensis from a probable nursery area in the Gatún Formation of Panama I., Castro, Jose (2011). Sharks of North America. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-978097-6. OCLC 958576172. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) 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 (range of error of ± 9 metres (30ft)), 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 (5.2in), they estimated a maximum body length of approximately 20 meters (66ft), with a range of error of approximately ± 3.5 metres (11ft). [45] This maximum length estimate was also supported by Cooper and his colleagues in 2022. [53] a b Perez, V. J.; Godfrey, S. J.; Kent, B. W.; Weems, R. E.; Nance, J. R. (2019). "The transition between Carcharocles chubutensis and Carcharocles megalodon (Otodontidae, Chondrichthyes): lateral cusplet loss through time". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 38 (6): e1546732. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2018.1546732.