our old friend the meg is back the super-sized predator of the deep has had a long history
a history that may not be over the shark was in the news again after math was used to verify the
size of the animal so was it as large or even larger than they say did it really die out and
could it still be cruising the deep being spotted from time to time let's take a look
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ring the bell so you never miss a video again the enormous shark has become a celebrity of the deep
people being in awe over the idea that such a beast could have once and possibly still does
cruise the oceans the supersize of the prehistoric mega shark has been capitalized on with hollywood
films using the meg as the terror of many a seafaring man and woman the actual size of
the shark has been up for debate with some widely different measurements being put forward for the
animal the size is mostly placed upon the finding of the teeth and using measurements from today's
sharks like the great white the measurements are sized up for the meg recently however a team from
swansea and bristol universities have combined maths with nature to reveal just exactly how big
the megalodon was the recent study was published in the journal scientific reports the university
researchers applied mathematical methods and comparisons with the megalodon's closest living
relatives this a process that is often used to reconstruct victims of crime humans like all
animals share common characteristics and therefore the matching muscle groups can be applied
to all members of a species this before the final steps of individualized characteristics are added
using clues from bone the teeth of the mag point to it having an overall size of 16 meters or 52
feet in length the megalodon being almost three times the size of the largest great white shark
measurements put its head around 4.65 meters or 15 feet in length its iconic dorsal fin was as large
as an entire adult human and it had a tail of 3.85 meters or 13 foot in height jack cooper who is to
study a phd in paleobiology at swansea university described the research as his dream project
megalodon was the very animal that inspired me to pursue paleontology but studying the whole animal
is difficult considering all we really have are lots of isolated teeth he said it's significant
that we have now been able to produce estimates of proportions and dimensions of the body parts when
there were and are no fossils to go off however the dimensions in the recent film were actually
pretty accurate he finished with there are also a growing number of cryptozoologists zoologists and
biologists who think that it is a possibility that the animal may still live there have been
many reports of the shark some are convinced the megalodon still lives one of the first reported
sightings of what is thought to be a megalodon comes from hms challenger back in 1875 the
british vessel hms challenger dredged up a pair of what was thought to be freshly shed megalodon
teeth from the sea floor dr w josneski of london's queen mary college attempted to date the teeth by
studying the up of the manganese dioxide layer on each tooth after examining the manganese dioxide
the deposits the doctor claimed that the teeth were in fact around 11 000 to 24 000 years old
although this date is the distant past it would if correct show that the megalodon survived far more
recently living well past the 2.3 to 2.6 million year date given for its extinction those that are
skeptical say that the manganese dioxide dating method is not reliable especially when trying to
use it to date shark's teeth cryptozoologist ben s royce reviewed the doctor's findings and wrote
that the megs and other sharks teeth are extremely hardy more so than that of other types of fossil
this means that the methods used to date archaic animal remains cannot be used accurately with
recovered megalodon teeth so if we cannot trust the findings of the doctor and these relatively
young teeth in terms of the historical record maybe we can find sightings of a living creature
that are more compelling one such story comes from a david steed and the tale of a giant fish
mr steed penned the book sharks and rays of the australian seas the australian naturalist retold
the story in which he believes witnesses describe a megalodon the story goes as follows it's 1981
and david spoke with several cray fishermen who had become terrified to go back out of sea they
were fearful of a shark which they saw cruising their fishing grounds off broughton island the
men claimed that this shark was an animal of unbelievable size it was swimming through
their pots and was so large it easily dragged the crayfish pots and the mooring away with it
as it swam this would be no easy feat as these fishing pots were over three feet in diameter
and loaded with a heavy catch steed and the local fisheries inspector a mr patton quizzed the men
they told the same story of a monstrously sized predator one witness claimed that its head alone
was at least as long as the roof on the wharf shed at nelson's bay many said it measured around 115
feet in length others said the water seemed to boil when it surfaced all of them were convinced
that it was a shark rather than a whale and that it was pale white in its coloring the story is
compelling as these men were familiar with the ocean and could easily identify sharks whales
and other ocean-going creatures sticking with australia and one of the most important ecosystems
on the planet the great barrier reef in the 60s a monster shark was said to have been spotted there
again seen by men who were no strangers to the ocean a group of sailors told that when
their 85-foot ship was forced to weigh anchor for engine repairs the captain and crew were surprised
when they saw a huge white shark swim slowly past their stuck ship the beast was no great white
as it was way too large matching the size of the broken down vessel this story brings us
to another about a giant cryptid shark known as the black demon the black demon is a shark
that is claimed to be bigger than the massive megalodon and is said to be lurking in the waters
of the californian coast it has been said that fishermen in the pacific ocean have reported
several first-hand experiences with the terrifying beast more evidences claim to come in the form of
hundreds of whales which have been discovered dead and so signs of being attacked by a mysterious
huge predator of some unknown type there are even those that say they have survived encounters with
the giant black creature of the deep an animal that they say was the same as a massive shark with
a huge mouth filled with many razor sharp pointed teeth this being one of the defining features of
the creature and is probably the feature that most defines a megalodon the local fishermen report
seeing huge shadows under the water with their claims being taken seriously and investigated by
scientists there have been hundreds of sightings of the shark particularly near baja california
mexico a local fisherman saw a huge shadow under the water and his claims are being investigated
by scientists from around the world the story is now attracting the attention of task force and tv
channels hoping to catch a snap of the creature as of yet there is no concrete evidence for the
black demon's existence despite this the national oceanic and atmospheric administration noah has
previously admitted it is hard to rule out the possibility of the many claims of sightings of
the animal they revealed how as much as 95 of the world's ocean and 99 of the ocean floor
remains unexplored and would provide ample space for the animal to hide visiting these regions of
the deep is difficult and time consuming as well as being vastly expensive so do you think this
monster of the deep is still swimming the deepest depths of the world's oceans are we likely to find
the meg and does this put you off of venturing out into the ocean let me know in the comments below
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