Things That You Didn’t Know About The Massive Megalodon

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Things That You Didn’t Know About The Massive Megalodon You must have heard about Megalodon, the biggest shark to ever to live in the oceans. While people have watched movies about it and read articles on it, a lot of the people are still not aware of some amazing facts about this incredible, extinct species of shark. Let’s take a look at them. Extinction Megalodon’s extinction figure tends to change as per new findings. While their skeletons are composed mainly of cartilage, their bones (vertebrae) and teeth are sufficiently spread in the fossil record. Through these, the scientists have estimated that these sharks lived about 20 million to 3 million years ago. But latest examination and findings suggest that these massive sharks went extinct arounf 2.6 million years ago.

It’s Size People often wonder that without full fossil skeletons, how do scientists estimate a megalodon’s size. Well, scientists use the same method that they use to measure a modern shark’s size and shape. They study the tooth to arrive at conclusions about


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