Megalodon meaning big tooth is said to be the scariest sea monster of all time
but many would dispute this now it is actually the largest extinct species of
shark of all time but that doesn't necessarily mean it's
the scariest sea monster in the world in fact there are many creatures lurking
in the deep sea which are far scarier than the megalodon
some are extinct and others are still with us today
helicoprion many have described this sea creature as a living buzz saw
exactly the opposite thing you'd want to run into when diving
the helicopter install was a mystery to marine biologists for decades
instead of having rows of teeth like most sharks this has a tooth
whirl it's basically a spiral of super sharp teeth
it comes from its lower jaw and looks terrifying fossils of this were first
discovered in 1899. it was hard to know exactly where these
teeth were located on helicoprions but over a hundred years later
scientists worked it out for years many thought these teeth grew
on its tail or dorsal fin but idaho university cracked the case
and found it comes from its jaw helicoprion translates to spiral jaw
now this creature is smaller than megalodon but megalodon's teeth did not
work in this way so maybe it would have been a worthy competitor
it would also be far more painful to be eaten by a helicopter
rather than a megalodon a megalodon would swallow a human in a few bites
but a helicoptrian would grind you up very slowly like a mining machine
two-headed shark a two-headed shark sounds like something straight from a
movie but i'm not making this up according to
national geographic two-headed sharks are becoming more and more common
and they're also a mystery of the sea these two-headed sharks keep popping up
and no one knows why now these are normal sharks which have simply been
mutated this is probably from genetic
abnormalities due to overfishing the first one of these was found in 2008
by a fisherman in the indian ocean but recently they've been seen in many
places for example north western mexico and the gulf of
california two-headed animals aren't all that uncommon
but there seem to be more and more two-headed sharks every single year
the national polytechnic institute in mexico believes that overfishing may be
to blame overfishing is removing a species of
fish from water at a rate the species can't replenish
so the sharks don't have enough time to actually mate and make more sharks
leviathan you may think that the megalodon was the only prehistoric sea
monster but many say that the leviathan is a
worthy contender and may actually beat the megalodon in a battle
they are not to be confused with la viathan this species of whale lived
13 million years ago and it would survive on a diet of other whales
here's a size comparison i made showing how big one of these is compared to a
human gigantic fossils of its mouth and teeth
have been found in seas around the world the leviathan could hold its breath much
longer than its prey and it's also the inspiration for the
famous book moby dick frilled shark frilled sharks are pretty
uncommon but they're one of the scariest sharks in the sea they have massive rows
of teeth spanning a total of 300 individual teeth across
25 rows they can grow up to 6 feet in length and they can constrict their prey
like snakes although they're much smaller than
megalodon they swim way faster according to the university of
california their teeth are needle sharp frilled sharks have been around for
centuries but were first discovered in 1881.
unlike most sharks it hovers in the water its body is packed with low
density oils and this means the shark is neutrally
buoyant at any depth although frilled sharks are found all
over the world you'll likely never see one that's because
they typically reside at depths between 400 and 4200 feet
one wasn't even seen in its natural habitat until 2004
mosasaurus mossosauruses are gigantic predators which could take on
megalodon many mistake these for dinosaurs but mostasauruses are actually
reptiles they're closely related to snakes and
monitor lizards they can grow up to 60 feet in length
and weigh over 40 thousand pounds so why could mosasauruses take on
megalodons well a mosasaurus has a double hinged
jaw this will allow it to swallow its prey whole
with megalodons this would mean big parts of it would be chewed up whole
their teeth are also shaped like sharp spikes allowing them to grip and hold on
to their prey they were around at the same time as
megalodons but mossasauruses are actually older
they're from around 82 million years ago and they became extinct around
66 million years ago this means they were extinct far before megalodons
megalodons only came into extinction 2.6 million years ago
so i guess megalodons are better survivors but who would win in a battle
leviathan we've already covered the leviathan which is named after the
leviathan leviathans weighed as much as 50 tons that's around 25 elephants
leviathans also did actually battle with megalodons
however they're nowhere near as big as megalodons
here's a size comparison i made of a leviathan a megalodon and also a human
for scale but while they are smaller they're still
a vicious contender in a battle leviathans are also one of the few
prehistoric animals to be discovered in peru
its closest ancestor today is the modern sperm whale but leviathans actually have
longer teeth than megalodons in fact they have the longest teeth out
of any prehistoric animal giant squid a squid may not sound like
the most threatening animal but once you learn about the giant squid your mind
might change giant squid's eyes are the size of
frisbees they have suction tentacles which can leave bad
battle scars their maximum length can be around 45
feet but one of the main reasons why they'd
be a great contender against a megalodon is because
they can regenerate some say this makes giant squids immortal
giant squids can regrow severed tentacles bodies and heads
they've been caught on underwater cameras many times and the footage
is terrifying in the movie the meg which is about megalodons there's even a
battle between a megalodon and a giant squid
megalodons are far less intelligent and also lack arms and tentacles
they also lack any defense from behind and their gills are an easy weak spot
megalodon's eyesight is nowhere near as good as a giant squid and also they get
confused by ink the squid squirts out into the water
who would you put your money on to win in a battle liopleurodon
this prehistoric creature had a mouthful of razor-sharp teeth
for its size it was an incredibly fast swimmer that's because it had gigantic
flippers it could swim around 10 kilometers per
hour that's faster than the fastest swimmer in the world
michael phelps it has a bite force of eleven thousand pounds
that means its teeth closing on you would be like a weight of eleven
thousand pounds vampire squid a vampire squid sounds
like something from a movie but it's very real they have a jelly-like
body that glows in the dark very little is known about this very
mysterious creature that's because it resides at depths of
900 meters the saturation of oxygen down there is as low as three percent
but mysteriously vampire squids can still live in these suffocating
conditions it's not known whether megalodon would
be able to go down that deep without getting suffocated
so maybe vampire squids could beat megalodons in a battle simply because
they live at such deep depths dunkleosteus
the dunkleosaurus is described as the tyrannosaurus of the sea
others say it's like an underwater tank it measured over 10 meters long and
weighed over four turns that's the weight of around two
elephants it had a rock-hard armored shell meaning megalodon's teeth may not
be able to bite into it instead of teeth it has lots of bony
sharp plates this carnivorous hunter is one of the
largest fish to ever live many fossils of this apex predator have
been found with the bite marks of its own species in it
this means that this fish was so hardcore it was literally a cannibal
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