Has anyone noticed that fish look like monsters?
They do….right?
Well imagine big old prehistoric fish with fangs that could rip you to shreds?
Imagining it?
Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to the fish from your worst nightmares!
Hello and welcome back to Life’s Biggest Questions, the channel that looks to answer
all manner of queries ...we love a what if….
We love a prehistoric extinct animal, especially when bae has teeth…I am your host Rebecca
Felgate and today I am asking what if the MegaPiranha went extinct?
What a question...what a day!
SO before we bite our way firmly into this video let me ask you a question - what do
you think the scariest prehistoric creature is?
Like I think I am going to have to go with a member of the dinosaur family.
The T Rex, the Mapusaurus or the Plesiosaur?
But piranha’s still exist and they terrify me!
Did anyone used to play Tomb Raider?
If Lara fell into that Piranha water it was bad news!
LIKE SHARE stick around to the end.
ALRIGHT let’s get chatting MegaPiranha.
The MegaPiranha was alive and biting between 6 and 10 million years ago.
Considering the size of the beasts alive back then, it really wasn’t massive.
In fact the MegaPiranha may have been mega by name, but it was only about 1 meter long,
although some scientists estimate they could reach up to 1.5 metres, which is nearly 5ft...which
is nearly my height!
The fish was light at just 25 pounds in weight, or just over 11 kilos.
For the keen anglers out there, you’ll know that while sizable, this isn’t as big as
they come...however there is a big reason that I would absolutely not suggest fishing
for these ancient water devils….
And if you’d heard of modern day Piranha’s you would know why.
The most loathsome Piranha we have in the water today is the black Piranha… that fish
is just two and a half lbs in weight, or 1.13 kilos buuuut even that can bite with a force
30 times its body weight, or three times the force of an American Alligator.
The MegaPiranha was bigger.
Much migger.
Already ten times the size of what we have today, it is thought that its bite to body
was even stronger, with some scientists suggesting it had a bite force of over 1000 lbs, or 454
kilos.
Stephanie Crofts, a University of Washington doctoral student in biology said: “If our
calculations are correct, Megapiranha was probably a bone-crushing predator taking bites
of anything and everything.”
Oh, so you’ll want to stay out of the water then!
If they never went extinct, I am assuming that they would still be living in the area
that they were native to South America, specifically the Amazon Basin - these days all Piranhas
live in South America too - with 20 different species in the Amazon River.
As is, with the fish still alive today, Piranha’s have killed people.
In 2016 50 people were injured in North East Brazil by the Piranha’s who were forced
to swim deeper waters in drought.
Separately, 20 holiday makers were injured by just one Piranha who was loose goose in
the Rio Grande.
Had it been the whole school….well… it is largely hyperbole to say that a human could
be skeletized in seconds by a bunch of Piranha’s, but a lot… a LOT of deaths have occurred
from people falling into Piranha infested water, imagine the situation if the ten times
bigger prehistoric murderers were out and about!
Then there really would be significantly more fatalities in the Amazon region.
Piranha’s today travel in a schoal, a big group, so they can protect themselves and
also corner prey, savaging them in a feeding frenzy.
Can you imagine what would happen if there was a schoal of bitey bitey MegaPiranha’s
who can devour
Humans AREN’t what Piranha’s eat - although of course they will take what they can get,
but these days the smaller fish eat weeds, crustaceans, worms and the like… but if
they were ten times bigger perhaps they’d be getting in to amazon pink river dolphins,
anacondas, Cabybaras and the like.
And...once again….yes humans if they had the misfortune to fall in….perhaps crime
would now include dumbing bodies in the amazon river and waiting for the Mega Ps to off the
evidence!
Okay… culturally…would we not be hella scared of Mega Pirhana’s in the way we are,
say, great white sharks?
They would kill more people! Lets take Austin Powers for example …. Doctor Evil would
sooo not be messing around with freaking Sharks with Freaking Lazers when he could have a
tank full of Mega Pirhana’s!
I’ll end this video by voicing my biggest concern in general when it comes to these
extinct beastie What Ifs….
like…
WHAT IF the Mega Pirhana not going extinct is indicative of other prehistoric creatures
too?
If the giant killer fish could survive then I don’t dare think what else could have
crept by natures cull….
And beyond that, if they never died out...what on earth would they have spawned!!!
I meaaaaan...does it bear thinking about?
Probably… but I have had enough for one day!
Bitey Bitey bad bad, the mega pirhana was the scariest fish we’ve ever had….had…
but its dead, so rest your head….so, babe, don’t you worry….
This fish isnt coming back in a hurry!
ETC
Perhaps
Comments from What if the Amazon Never Existed….
And I suppose we can now all probably take comfort that if that were the case, Piranha’s
wouldn’t have existed either!
The Immortal Super Being Said: WHAT IF ALL THE DESERTS DISAPPEARED ?.
Plus my fav Amazon animal is The Green Anaconda
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My favourite animal are the interesting coloured frogs, you know, they ones that can kill you?
Haha, so pretty and tiny yet so deadly its crazy
but interesting.