The megalodon at this point has reached the level of cryptozoology comparable to bigfoot and loch ness. It literally requires paranormal properties to exist today.
@@stare4539gets mauled by a full grown megalodon, orcas are pack hunters so even if there was they’d just eat them before they became mature enough to do anything about it.
@@stare4539There is no solitary animal that has ever lived that could pose a threat to a pod of Orcas. An individual Megalodon would get bullied by a pod of Orcas.
@IreneSalmakis the average person knows more about the length of a meter than the length of a football field. How many of us run along football fields every day, checking the length? Lol
@@V-DTAJ its the comparison of something large that is familiar to put more emphasis on its size. its far easier to envision two school buses than any exact measurement.
So glad to finally find a video of someone actually using logic and knowing that there's literally no way the megalodon could still be out there, as cool as that may be. When the megalodon was still alive and competing with great whites, it was, to no ones surprise, the great whites thst came out on top. This is cause megalodons liked to keep their temperature about 7 degrees-ish above the water surrounding them (if I'm not wrong at least), which made them more efficient huntets but they also needed more food. When the ocean temperatures got even colder, they needed even more food during a time period where there wasn't a lot to go around, I believe, so they ended up dying out.
How the hell would we know that they liked to keep themselves 7 degrees warmer than their and how would they even do that just work up a sweat? Aside from that sounds pretty reasonable
@@Barnrathunter Maybe not exactly 7 degrees, but I saw it from a different video somewhere that explained why megalodons died out but not great whites, and in it, they said that apparently megs kept their body temperature about 7 degrees higher than the temperature around it, which made them more active predators, however, great whites didn't do this and instead chose to save their energy for ambushes, so when the waters got colder over time and the megs had to eat more, they eventually died out because there wasn't enough food at some point to keep them alive due to how much they needed to sustain their active lifestyle. I think the channel is called MinuteEarth or something, check it out if you want. I'm just taking the info I learned from that and applying it here.
Krakens could actually exist for the fact of how deep giant squid are in the ocean a kraken is just a big giant squid deeper then normal giant squid are at in the ocean
@@Irl_squidward The colossal squid could probably be classified as a kraken, all things considered. Just its eyes are the size of like basketballs or something, it's scary big. It's big to the point that sperm whales fight with them and usually have scars from fighting them or even still whole tentacles attached to their bodies! Apparently there isn't any recorded footage of a colossal squid yet, but hopefully one day we can get some! Now we just gotta hope that there isn't an even larger squid out there that we just haven't seen at all lol
Great video! Too many people believe that the Meg still exists, and it takes the focus off living sharks that need our help (like the critically endangered Oceanic Whitetip or Scalloped Hammerhead).
nah this video is full of like the rest they do find meg teeth all the time they have whales with massive bite marks on them along with large sharks have some bite marks on the that take up a chuck of the body so something is down there if not a meg then what and the fact we don't even no much about our oceans still to this day tells me scientist wouldn't no much.
@@Donotdisturb82it’s unfair to just group the largest continent and it’s countries and people into one racial stereotype that makes them all seem like this, check yourself and get up to date .
Agreed. Megalodon fed mostly on whales and other large animals to sustain its large size and metabolic activity. Most deep sea animals tend to be fairly small and very spread out due to the limited availability of food. There simply wouldn't be enough prey for meg and being as huge as it is probably it won't be able to catch them effectively anyways, not without completely altering itself to the point of being no longer recognizable.
this didn't prove anything though. there are whales with what looks like bite marks but they claim it something else even sharks big sharks with bite marks they claim the same thing but bite marks are bite marks lol.
I think the point of this video was particularly clickbait because it's such a polarizing subject(for some reason) and just trying to prove those who refuse to believe it's extinct wrong.
Idk why many people still think that the megalodon is still alive even tho they know that it is extinct 💀. since the ocean is 5% explored, so if we discover the 95%, we may see some micro fish that glow or probably worms. Possibilities are endless, we may discover *many* animals deep down there.
The Megalodon *could* still be down there in the Mariana Trench, but most unlikely. The Megalodon could potentially have adapted or even evolved during the Ice Age, where the ice had cooled down the waters and world by a lot, and during that period could’ve also adapted the ability to swim into the depths, to look for food that could be down there, and also because the Ice Age might’ve caused a lot of species to go extinct.
@@garg4531orcas could arguably be prey for a megaladon since I’m pretty sure they didn’t coexist. Megaladons died out probably because of the fact that they had to eat more daily calories than their competition.
@@tomer9952 I don’t think they’d be able to prey on orcas. Megalodon may be larger but orcas would be hard to catch, especially since they live in groups and are very intelligent
@@garg4531 megaladon’s main diet was small whales, so at the end of the day it may be a neighborhood cat and mouse analogy where the outcome can only be measured by a probability on whether there is a winner and who A major factor may be whoever is suspecting and unsuspecting and whoever strikes first. This is a big way animals gain leverage- the element of surprise. This is why sharks and killer whales both have camouflage coloration. If killer whales do not have the size advantage and do not want to awaken the beast, they would certainly use the element of surprise similar to lions and wildebeest. Either species must either have adapted to circumstances or go extinct. So is it possible that the Meg is taking a vacation deep in the ocean to avoid predation? Maybe the water is too cold?
Yeah.. but in the millions of years since they were last "officially" known to exist, they could've evolved to prefer colder and deeper waters... Or gotten smaller... Or maybe there's an ocean under the Earth's crust where they live along with collosal squid, the bloop, and my mom..
It's just not realistic that there's giants staying under the radar, they'd just be too easy to spot. And they don't have the mindset of they gotta stay hidden from humans because that'd be just so cool
Megalodons had a bloody temperature 7 degrees warmer than great white sharks and relied on faster metabolisms to be more active and hunt more prey, when temperatures dropped and foods became more scarce, they struggled to adapt and died off. The idea of them being deeper is ridiculous because that would need them to entirely change the way they operated from warm and fast to cold and slow, if they had survived this way, they would essentially no longer be megalodons.
@@Pepe-pq3om The theory actually comes from analysing their teeth, by looking at the carbon and oxygen in them and comparing it to other sharks, scientists can get a pretty good idea of their internal temperature
They said the same thing about the Coelacanth and the colossal squid. We can only be sure of two things. 1:It's unlikely they are still alive. 2:If they are, they're very rare. The ocean is far too big and we rediscover extinct aquatic species with enough regularity that we cannot say that they are 100% extinct.
Both of those live in deeper water and the Ceolacanth is pretty small. The Megalodon was both absolutely huge and lived in warm and shallow water (aka, the exact spots of the ocean humans have explored)
@@StrikerEureka13 Megalodons fossil teeth were found in warm shallow areas. For all we know they were teeth embedded in carcasses of other animals and fish that washed up onto ancient shorelines. We have no way to know what their actual range was. The only thing we can say for sure about them is that they were distributed globally.
@@peggysews 1. Every single one of the teeth we have found was in warm and shallow water (and we have found a lot). The chance of them not living there is astronomically small. 2. With their size the pressure of deep water would be really tough on their body.
@@StrikerEureka13 Tell that to the dozens of shark species that live in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans. Even Great White sharks have recently been discovered ranging along the coast of Alaska in waters far colder than scientists thought they could survive. Animals adapt to new habitats all the time and there's no reason to believe that Megaladon was incapable of doing the same thing on at least a limited scale. With 95% of our oceans still unexplored, we can presume they are probably extinct, but we cannot ever say it with absolute certainty.
Colossal squid/Giant squid are known only from beaks found in sperm whale stomachs, Megalodon may have evolved to live at depths they don't need to leave.
why do people even want the meg to exist anyway? i know their scaredy ass won't be swimming the ocean anytime soon if they find out the meg still exists 💀
there is more to it then it just existing. its like most things in the ocean that scientist claim don't exist then all of sudden that thing pops up some where else they didn't think they could be or live in. so science doesn't always get it right.
@@userunknown1030what has popped up that they said didn't exist or was extinct and don't say the celocanth you can't compare the two the meg was a super predator that we would definitely notice or find some sort of carcass even giant squids have washed up to shore
@@noelramirez1551 why would i go through the trouble of saying something to you if all you are going to do is say well it was something smaller so it wont count. if your just going to make excuse for them being wrong there is no point in talking to you then.
@@userunknown1030 Occam's razor the simplest answer is usually the correct one .... the fact we haven't found any DNA in the water the fact we haven't ever caught a juvenile meg in a net with all the fishing boats in the world and no body ever washing up
@@noelramirez1551 yes that is only viable if you believe the source giving the information. just because they say they haven't found something doesn't mean it doesn't exist they said the same about the giant squid at one point. and its not like the science community never gets things wrong. just to believe anything at face value these days is kind of crazy to me but i guess that is how it goes.
Or a Otodus megalodon might've evolved into a new form of shark in compensating with the dramatic climate change and to avoid competition. Other marine organisms recently discovered happen to be sharks. So, we can't rule out the plausibility of a smaller Otodus being out there.
@@l__- Did you? Do you know fossils, particularly 3 million years+ fossils like in the case of Megalodons, are actually rocks? The entire bone structure is mineralized over millions of years and what you get is a rock in the shape of the original bone. DNA doesn't survive that.
@@l__- you can’t extract dna from fossils. If you could, we’d have dna from dinosaurs and every known extinct animal. Fossils are just stone remnants of bones.
@@gloriouschannel3683 That squid got no bones. Megalodon would implode like an oceangate in those depths, it was a shallow-water dwelling coastal shark.
@@gloriouschannel3683 We had evidence of giant squid's existence even before seeing a live specimen thanks to the scars they left on sperm whales as well as their beaks being found in the whale's stomachs Megalodon would've certainly left behind plenty of evidence if it was still around, considering that they mostly fed on whales and other large animals.
The most believable giant monster that could still be around is the kraken. Edit: i believe the kraken could possibly be real and alive because the species that it came from can squeeze through very tight spaces, i have different theories on what kind of space it’s hiding in, the kraken is too heavy to come on the surface so it would stay in the water, plus it could be hiding because of all the nuclear bomb tests which could scare it.
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@@Im_Jakonye but in stories the kraken had tentacles that could rap around a ship multiple times. Colossal squids arent nearly that size. Either the stories could be exaggerated or there is actually a kraken
@@DavidUsandivaras Of course it was exaggerated. Like all other stories from the ancient time. Just like UFO stories when mobile phones weren't so popular. Human always tend to make up things for various reasons. It's 100% a very big colossal squid, might be an extinct kind.
No!. There is not an abundant food source, and you would kinda notice a whale with a massive bite mark floating out at sea. They were tropical water predators as well.
Idk where the 90% stat comes from, it’s wrong, we know what’s it’s 90% of oceans, it’s just empty space, we haven’t fully explored the sea floor, but we have done it extensively, like when people say we know more about the moon then we do the oceans, no it’s just another one of the weird made up phrases
I love the people who claim it's hiding in the deep oceans. That would have been some incredibly fast entire-physiology-altering evolution for Meg to go from warm water and needing to feed on whales, pinnipeds, other sharks, and large fish to cold water with intense pressure and whatever scraps it can locate. And it wouldn't even be a megalodon anymore, but a new species.
Interesting thing is whales do not have a natural sea predator. And great whites are starting to show signs of both growing larger and faster. So who knows in a million years we might see a giant shark again
@@speedbump9299I mean global warming will certainly help as long as it doesn't kill off too much modern fauna before that kind of apex predator can even start evolving
You should probably watch the entire length of the short video. There'd be evidence of it being around. Similar how we'd seen evidence of the giant squid years before ever seeing one alive
I think it is highly unlikely, but I will just pop the below here for anyone interested. Do we even know how long has colossal squid have been around? Maybe they existed at the time of these mega sharks. 1925 The first report of a colossal squid was in 1925, when the head and arms were discovered in a sperm whale stomach. Since then, a total of only eight adult colossal squid have been reported, and six of those were remains recovered from the stomachs of caught whales.
Collosal squids live in incredibly deep water where humans can't even go, the Megalodon lived in warm costal water, exactly where humans go all the time.
@@StrikerEureka13 I am not saying they exist, but if something as big as colossal squid have only recently been discovered. It makes you wonder what else could be out there.
I think it's very arrogant to say this with such certainty. You don't even have film footage of a giant squid, and the vast majority of the oceans are unexplored.
of course you can because no matter how hidden megalodon are, they need to eat and there is no trace of megalodon bite on whale if they even exist right now. unlike giant squid which we can see their trace on sperm whale.
@@bluelotus.society exploring ocean is irrelevant to proving megalodon still exist or not. trace of predatory activity from their prey is enough to proven their existence and not once it's ever found on whale or any place observable ocean. unlike giant squid which you can find their trace even without footage of them.
@@danielmanriquegarcia6041 i don't want anything. I'm saying it's arrogant to claim anything that lives in the ocean is 100% extinct when we haven't even explored most of it. There are land animals that they thought extinct that still showed up in places
Even If that were true - those creatures didn't live in 100% of the oceans. Like they said - they preferred warmer waters. So it is 99,99% definite that they do not exist anymore
There is a lot of weird stuff down there but mostly small stuff, not a giant shark. Like there are probably thousands of undiscovered fish and jellyfish the size of your fist.
"They would have been seen by now" Oh, you mean like the colossal squid that we've never seen and everyone just dismissed as folklore for centuries up until a few decades ago?
1. The first specimen was discovered in 1925, nearly a century ago, hardly "a few decades", especially when it comes to scientific advancement 2. Colossal squid are more similar to other extant squids than Megalodon is to any extant sharks, so it's more complicated to differentiate them 3. Colossal squid don't shed massive teeth that would be very easy to find 4. Colossal squid weigh less than a ton, Megalodon could regularly weigh up to 50-60 tonnes or higher, that weight requires a massive amount of food to maintain that we would absolutely need to see signs of, and also an amount it would struggle getting with any regularity in the deep ocean, or even just.. literally anywhere 5. Colossal squid actually live in the cold, deep ocean, something that Megalodon could not do without doing a massive 180° when it comes to a lot of their adaptations which is extremely unlikely compared to just extinction TL;DR: Colossal squid and Megalodon can't really be compared in this way at all, and there's basically no way Megalodon still exist today, the chance is so incredibly, incredibly low that it's basically on the same level as Bigfoot
Did you watch the video? The point is that it's not just about 'finding' them - there would be evidence of their existence even in the absence of an actual sighting. What are they eating that we aren't finding animals with huge bite marks? What's happening to their teeth? What's happening to their DNA? What's happening to their carcasses when they do die? How are they finding each other in a way that doesn't attract the attention of our ultra sensitive military ocean monitoring equipment? For reals people 🤦
Because most of that water is pretty much empty. You would think something that MONUMENTAL would show up someday wouldn't it? Megalodon's are coastal, warm water sharks - meaning they live relatively near the shore. There are so MANY points against it, and as someone incredibly interested in Paleontology, it's frustrating to hear the same 3 ideas being used for "the Meg still exists" I don't mean anything against you personally, I just see this all the time and it sucks that we're so hung up on this idea that a shark this massive still exists.
Three seconds in and i already wanna leave (had to pause it to comment) Proof 1. There isn't enough food to sustain it. 2. If it was alive we would've seen a body by now
For those of you who who are arguing that we thought the coelacanth and giant squid weren't real at first, the difference between those and the megalodon is that, even if they didn't exist, modern ecosystems could still, in theory, support organisms of their size and nature. There simply isn't a large enough and plentiful enough source of prey for a predatory shark that large in any modern ocean ecosystem we're aware of and ESPECIALLY not in the depths (which is probably why they went extinct in the first place, changing ecosystems lost the capacity to support them). If the megalodon did directly evolve into a shark that hides in the depths, the shark it is now would be a totally different animal than the megalodon was.
The megalodon at this point has reached the level of cryptozoology comparable to bigfoot and loch ness. It literally requires paranormal properties to exist today.
Lol if you've seen these new documentaries about the loch Ness monster and Bigfoot that's their new go to that they're inter dimensional beings 😂
@@noelramirez1551 Yes, that's right. But interdimensional beings PRETENDING to be bigfoot and a lake monster.
@@noelramirez1551they're evolving 😂😂😂
Honestly
The colder the water, the bigger the animal, so I think it could remain hidden around the deep-sea arctic
sounds like what a meg would say
LOL
Actually lol’d!
“Did…did a meg make this?”
😮😮😮😮😮😮
Brilliant 🤣
Shut up Meg!
Is there any chance that the Megalodon still exists today? Orcas: Nope!
Dam Lil bro took D riding to a another level
A Megalodon can take out a whole pod it's literally so obvious
^That part. 💯💯💯💯
orca gets mauled by megalodon lol
@@stare4539gets mauled by a full grown megalodon, orcas are pack hunters so even if there was they’d just eat them before they became mature enough to do anything about it.
@@stare4539There is no solitary animal that has ever lived that could pose a threat to a pod of Orcas. An individual Megalodon would get bullied by a pod of Orcas.
Colossal squid are the hide and seek champs.
in the marine / aquatic division
"Leviathan class creature detected in the area."
Are you sure what youre doing is worth it?
"Welcome home, Captain"
@@POO_BEH then you hear BRAGGGHHHHHHH from beneath you
😮😮😮😮😅😅
Flashbacks
Nothing more American than measuring with school busses or football fields
It's a comparison with something familiar, because an abstract measurement can fail to get the point across.
@IreneSalmakis the average person knows more about the length of a meter than the length of a football field. How many of us run along football fields every day, checking the length? Lol
@@V-DTAJ an American football field is a little shorter than a soccer pitch. Most people have been to one and can get a sense of scale from that.
@@V-DTAJ its the comparison of something large that is familiar to put more emphasis on its size. its far easier to envision two school buses than any exact measurement.
@mikeymoore6269 you know what else literally everyone's familiar with in the entire world besides the US and canada? The meter. Wonder why that is.
How many french fries is that?
LMAOO
Exactly 2,587
@@thanos8914Impressive 👏👏👏
@@thanos8914lowballing it for sure
34 dumpsters full
So glad to finally find a video of someone actually using logic and knowing that there's literally no way the megalodon could still be out there, as cool as that may be.
When the megalodon was still alive and competing with great whites, it was, to no ones surprise, the great whites thst came out on top. This is cause megalodons liked to keep their temperature about 7 degrees-ish above the water surrounding them (if I'm not wrong at least), which made them more efficient huntets but they also needed more food. When the ocean temperatures got even colder, they needed even more food during a time period where there wasn't a lot to go around, I believe, so they ended up dying out.
How the hell would we know that they liked to keep themselves 7 degrees warmer than their and how would they even do that just work up a sweat? Aside from that sounds pretty reasonable
@@Barnrathunter Maybe not exactly 7 degrees, but I saw it from a different video somewhere that explained why megalodons died out but not great whites, and in it, they said that apparently megs kept their body temperature about 7 degrees higher than the temperature around it, which made them more active predators, however, great whites didn't do this and instead chose to save their energy for ambushes, so when the waters got colder over time and the megs had to eat more, they eventually died out because there wasn't enough food at some point to keep them alive due to how much they needed to sustain their active lifestyle. I think the channel is called MinuteEarth or something, check it out if you want. I'm just taking the info I learned from that and applying it here.
Krakens could actually exist for the fact of how deep giant squid are in the ocean a kraken is just a big giant squid deeper then normal giant squid are at in the ocean
@@Irl_squidward The colossal squid could probably be classified as a kraken, all things considered. Just its eyes are the size of like basketballs or something, it's scary big. It's big to the point that sperm whales fight with them and usually have scars from fighting them or even still whole tentacles attached to their bodies! Apparently there isn't any recorded footage of a colossal squid yet, but hopefully one day we can get some! Now we just gotta hope that there isn't an even larger squid out there that we just haven't seen at all lol
Thank you ❤❤❤❤❤
The megaladon is hiding with the giant sloth, Bigfoot, and the loch ness
Great video! Too many people believe that the Meg still exists, and it takes the focus off living sharks that need our help (like the critically endangered Oceanic Whitetip or Scalloped Hammerhead).
nah this video is full of like the rest they do find meg teeth all the time they have whales with massive bite marks on them along with large sharks have some bite marks on the that take up a chuck of the body so something is down there if not a meg then what and the fact we don't even no much about our oceans still to this day tells me scientist wouldn't no much.
the warmer water then.....😅
Then tell Asians to stop killing them for just the fins.
@@Donotdisturb82it’s unfair to just group the largest continent and it’s countries and people into one racial stereotype that makes them all seem like this, check yourself and get up to date .
Good call on the white tip...many others but that's a special shark for sure
“What creature should we be searching for?”
“My dad.”
I don't think he still exists, do you?
Probably more frilled sharks, I love those freaky goobers
oh yeah their Freaky alright
freaky...
Jesus loves you!❤
𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂lled shark
Yes they are awesome^^ my favorite shark
There's also not enough resources for a Meg to sustain its metabolism that deep down.
He's eating sand 😭
Agreed. Megalodon fed mostly on whales and other large animals to sustain its large size and metabolic activity. Most deep sea animals tend to be fairly small and very spread out due to the limited availability of food. There simply wouldn't be enough prey for meg and being as huge as it is probably it won't be able to catch them effectively anyways, not without completely altering itself to the point of being no longer recognizable.
"There's no chance that the Meg would be winning the world's best hide amd seek"
That's what all Meg's say
Thank you for this. So many people want to believe.
this didn't prove anything though. there are whales with what looks like bite marks but they claim it something else even sharks big sharks with bite marks they claim the same thing but bite marks are bite marks lol.
@@userunknown1030how do you explain the lack of DNA samples, newly shed teeth, or presence in its natural habitat
@@userunknown1030source?
@@userunknown1030 orcas
@@userunknown1030just so you know, great whites can grow to 20 feet or more so stop believing bro
Why do you want this thing to be alive so bad, I swear there are more terrifying creatures out there
I think the point of this video was particularly clickbait because it's such a polarizing subject(for some reason) and just trying to prove those who refuse to believe it's extinct wrong.
@@justjules24how tf is that clickbait, it’s literally telling the info to little kids 🤦♂️
@@SunT1tus what?
@@justjules24 you meant it’s a trend not clickbait
@@SunT1tus the video is clickbait. The topic is trendy.
For Megalodons to still exist, they would’ve had to evolve so much that they wouldn’t even be Megalodons anymore
Ah yes bus measurement! Two buses as a form of measurement is always a go to.
Anything but metric for the americans
@@ultimate9056they literally said 10 and a half to 20 meters long🤦♂️
I love going shark tooth hunting and in the past I have found a meg tooth. It’s really big
The Meg could have evolved to live in cold high pressure waters. Though I think it would have significantly shrunk then.
That's really unlikely, and even if it did evolve to that point, then it would be a totally different animal
I can agree
then it would be a **mega**lodon tho
Then would that even be a megalodon any more?
A great wite is probs just an evolved megladon
The problem is that in the depth of somewhere like Mariana Trench,it’s very lack of food for something can weight up to 138 tons,so nope
Idk why many people still think that the megalodon is still alive even tho they know that it is extinct 💀.
since the ocean is 5% explored, so if we discover the 95%, we may see some micro fish that glow or probably worms. Possibilities are endless, we may discover *many* animals deep down there.
Ask any orca, they will tell you.
If orcas run from a bull adult sperm whale they'll prob do the same with a meg
The narrator clearly has not seen the Jason Statham documentary called The Meg.
the school bus reference I can't HAHAHAHA
Truly one of the scariest animals ever.
As a shark lover, I can only hope that they're still alive.. realistically, though, they are not.
Tons of ocean creatures hide, like where eels mate or where giant squid are.
It wouldn’t be a meg any more
Not to mention the lack of suitable food for a Meg. A shark that big has got to eat a lot and unfortunately one can't snack on guppies.
“Is there any chance the megalodon exists to-“ no
The Megalodon *could* still be down there in the Mariana Trench, but most unlikely. The Megalodon could potentially have adapted or even evolved during the Ice Age, where the ice had cooled down the waters and world by a lot, and during that period could’ve also adapted the ability to swim into the depths, to look for food that could be down there, and also because the Ice Age might’ve caused a lot of species to go extinct.
What are they hiding from if they are a 65 foot predator
*O r c a s*
@@garg4531orcas could arguably be prey for a megaladon since I’m pretty sure they didn’t coexist. Megaladons died out probably because of the fact that they had to eat more daily calories than their competition.
@@tomer9952 I don’t think they’d be able to prey on orcas. Megalodon may be larger but orcas would be hard to catch, especially since they live in groups and are very intelligent
@@garg4531 megaladon’s main diet was small whales, so at the end of the day it may be a neighborhood cat and mouse analogy where the outcome can only be measured by a probability on whether there is a winner and who
A major factor may be whoever is suspecting and unsuspecting and whoever strikes first. This is a big way animals gain leverage- the element of surprise. This is why sharks and killer whales both have camouflage coloration. If killer whales do not have the size advantage and do not want to awaken the beast, they would certainly use the element of surprise similar to lions and wildebeest. Either species must either have adapted to circumstances or go extinct. So is it possible that the Meg is taking a vacation deep in the ocean to avoid predation? Maybe the water is too cold?
@@tomer9952 too little food in the deep sea
I do believe that it is still roaming somewhere, all bc we have only discovered 5% of the ocean.
Yeah.. but in the millions of years since they were last "officially" known to exist, they could've evolved to prefer colder and deeper waters... Or gotten smaller... Or maybe there's an ocean under the Earth's crust where they live along with collosal squid, the bloop, and my mom..
You got me in the first half 🤣
It's just not realistic that there's giants staying under the radar, they'd just be too easy to spot. And they don't have the mindset of they gotta stay hidden from humans because that'd be just so cool
Megalodons had a bloody temperature 7 degrees warmer than great white sharks and relied on faster metabolisms to be more active and hunt more prey, when temperatures dropped and foods became more scarce, they struggled to adapt and died off. The idea of them being deeper is ridiculous because that would need them to entirely change the way they operated from warm and fast to cold and slow, if they had survived this way, they would essentially no longer be megalodons.
How can this possible be known since all we have evidencing his existence are his teeth?
@@Pepe-pq3om The theory actually comes from analysing their teeth, by looking at the carbon and oxygen in them and comparing it to other sharks, scientists can get a pretty good idea of their internal temperature
It's amazing how dense some people can be. The Meg is definitely not around anymore! 😂
They said the same thing about the Coelacanth and the colossal squid. We can only be sure of two things.
1:It's unlikely they are still alive.
2:If they are, they're very rare.
The ocean is far too big and we rediscover extinct aquatic species with enough regularity that we cannot say that they are 100% extinct.
Both of those live in deeper water and the Ceolacanth is pretty small. The Megalodon was both absolutely huge and lived in warm and shallow water (aka, the exact spots of the ocean humans have explored)
@@StrikerEureka13 Megalodons fossil teeth were found in warm shallow areas. For all we know they were teeth embedded in carcasses of other animals and fish that washed up onto ancient shorelines. We have no way to know what their actual range was.
The only thing we can say for sure about them is that they were distributed globally.
@@peggysews 1. Every single one of the teeth we have found was in warm and shallow water (and we have found a lot). The chance of them not living there is astronomically small.
2. With their size the pressure of deep water would be really tough on their body.
@@peggysews 3. They were warm blooded, so if they loved in cold water the amount of energy they would have needed would have been ridiculously high
@@StrikerEureka13 Tell that to the dozens of shark species that live in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans.
Even Great White sharks have recently been discovered ranging along the coast of Alaska in waters far colder than scientists thought they could survive.
Animals adapt to new habitats all the time and there's no reason to believe that Megaladon was incapable of doing the same thing on at least a limited scale. With 95% of our oceans still unexplored, we can presume they are probably extinct, but we cannot ever say it with absolute certainty.
Colossal squid/Giant squid are known only from beaks found in sperm whale stomachs, Megalodon may have evolved to live at depths they don't need to leave.
Find more deepsea creatures please!!, yall keep giving them the Coolest names ever, my username is straight up named after one.
You're right, but.... I WANT TO BELIEVE!
why do people even want the meg to exist anyway? i know their scaredy ass won't be swimming the ocean anytime soon if they find out the meg still exists 💀
there is more to it then it just existing. its like most things in the ocean that scientist claim don't exist then all of sudden that thing pops up some where else they didn't think they could be or live in. so science doesn't always get it right.
@@userunknown1030what has popped up that they said didn't exist or was extinct and don't say the celocanth you can't compare the two the meg was a super predator that we would definitely notice or find some sort of carcass even giant squids have washed up to shore
@@noelramirez1551 why would i go through the trouble of saying something to you if all you are going to do is say well it was something smaller so it wont count. if your just going to make excuse for them being wrong there is no point in talking to you then.
@@userunknown1030 Occam's razor the simplest answer is usually the correct one .... the fact we haven't found any DNA in the water the fact we haven't ever caught a juvenile meg in a net with all the fishing boats in the world and no body ever washing up
@@noelramirez1551 yes that is only viable if you believe the source giving the information. just because they say they haven't found something doesn't mean it doesn't exist they said the same about the giant squid at one point. and its not like the science community never gets things wrong. just to believe anything at face value these days is kind of crazy to me but i guess that is how it goes.
the megalodon and big foot is tie in the master of hide and seek game
The answer is no
Or a Otodus megalodon might've evolved into a new form of shark in compensating with the dramatic climate change and to avoid competition. Other marine organisms recently discovered happen to be sharks. So, we can't rule out the plausibility of a smaller Otodus being out there.
How would you recognize megalodon DNA?
heard of fossils? me too
@@l__- Did you? Do you know fossils, particularly 3 million years+ fossils like in the case of Megalodons, are actually rocks? The entire bone structure is mineralized over millions of years and what you get is a rock in the shape of the original bone. DNA doesn't survive that.
@@l__- you can’t extract dna from fossils. If you could, we’d have dna from dinosaurs and every known extinct animal. Fossils are just stone remnants of bones.
@@l__- Fossils cannot be used to collect dna
@@quasistellar3594 a simple search could have prevented your comment, it's actually possible
megaladon:im the biggest
bloop:what did you say
That sounds exactly like what a megalodon would say to make us think that they can't be found
Ok but did they check the polar ice caps like in that one movie 😂
There is 0% chance that it's still alive. Nuff said
they sad the same thing bout the giant squid...
@@gloriouschannel3683 That squid got no bones.
Megalodon would implode like an oceangate in those depths, it was a shallow-water dwelling coastal shark.
@@BioWorkAgencycomparing megalodon to Oceangate is the funniest comparison to why it can't hide.
@@gloriouschannel3683 That’s because the giant squid hides at incredibly deep depths, depths which megalodon could never even reach
@@gloriouschannel3683 We had evidence of giant squid's existence even before seeing a live specimen thanks to the scars they left on sperm whales as well as their beaks being found in the whale's stomachs
Megalodon would've certainly left behind plenty of evidence if it was still around, considering that they mostly fed on whales and other large animals.
Orcas:
Nah I'd win.
The most believable giant monster that could still be around is the kraken.
Edit: i believe the kraken could possibly be real and alive because the species that it came from can squeeze through very tight spaces, i have different theories on what kind of space it’s hiding in, the kraken is too heavy to come on the surface so it would stay in the water, plus it could be hiding because of all the nuclear bomb tests which could scare it.
We’ve basically proven the kraken, it was probably just a giant or colossal squid.
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@@Im_Jakonye but in stories the kraken had tentacles that could rap around a ship multiple times. Colossal squids arent nearly that size. Either the stories could be exaggerated or there is actually a kraken
@@DavidUsandivaras Of course it was exaggerated. Like all other stories from the ancient time. Just like UFO stories when mobile phones weren't so popular. Human always tend to make up things for various reasons. It's 100% a very big colossal squid, might be an extinct kind.
@Diveguy-hb1jb yes that too
No!. There is not an abundant food source, and you would kinda notice a whale with a massive bite mark floating out at sea. They were tropical water predators as well.
THAT may not be around, but there are still plenty of creatures in the ocean that can shred and eat you.
We’ve discovered less than 10% of the ocean, ANYTHING could still be down there
If 90% of earth's waters are yet to be explored...the meg is the least of our concerns
Huh?? Please expound....
Idk where the 90% stat comes from, it’s wrong, we know what’s it’s 90% of oceans, it’s just empty space, we haven’t fully explored the sea floor, but we have done it extensively, like when people say we know more about the moon then we do the oceans, no it’s just another one of the weird made up phrases
Colossal squid on film is all I want.
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Maybe the meg was like: Nah i wanna switch to cold water.
what if its down so deep were the water is actually warmer
You mean like magma and stuff that warm the water? That’s a good theory.
No
Underground ocean
Alr lets pretend that happened, what the hell would it eat?
@the animals deep down there.
Like that one squid and other sharks. Like the goblin sharknotthebest2968
I love the people who claim it's hiding in the deep oceans. That would have been some incredibly fast entire-physiology-altering evolution for Meg to go from warm water and needing to feed on whales, pinnipeds, other sharks, and large fish to cold water with intense pressure and whatever scraps it can locate. And it wouldn't even be a megalodon anymore, but a new species.
Megladon had a lot more food choices when it was around than it does today
Would have today*
By the way, the shark at the end was a Megamouth shark, not a Meg.
There is not enough food in the world to keep even ONE megalodon up and running.
Interesting thing is whales do not have a natural sea predator. And great whites are starting to show signs of both growing larger and faster. So who knows in a million years we might see a giant shark again
@@speedbump9299I mean global warming will certainly help as long as it doesn't kill off too much modern fauna before that kind of apex predator can even start evolving
That's what they say about elephants hiding in trees.
these comments are giving me brain damage how can people be so alienated into believe something that doesn't even make sense
Ikr, like, we would be seeing more recently shed teeth rather than fossilised teeth which is very common, meaning megs shed out alot of their teeth
I do like how the video is educative, rather than dismissive or sensational.
"it don't real, wanna hear cool ocean facts tho?"
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But there's so much of the ocean that we haven't been able to explore - isn't there a possibility of pretty much anything living there, technically?
You should probably watch the entire length of the short video. There'd be evidence of it being around. Similar how we'd seen evidence of the giant squid years before ever seeing one alive
No the exact opposite. All that unexplored ocean is barren wasteland with little probability of anything living there
I think it is highly unlikely, but I will just pop the below here for anyone interested. Do we even know how long has colossal squid have been around? Maybe they existed at the time of these mega sharks.
1925
The first report of a colossal squid was in 1925, when the head and arms were discovered in a sperm whale stomach. Since then, a total of only eight adult colossal squid have been reported, and six of those were remains recovered from the stomachs of caught whales.
to be fair colossal squid are known to inhabit the very depths of the ocean, whereas Megalodons don’t
Collosal squids live in incredibly deep water where humans can't even go, the Megalodon lived in warm costal water, exactly where humans go all the time.
@@StrikerEureka13 I am not saying they exist, but if something as big as colossal squid have only recently been discovered. It makes you wonder what else could be out there.
@@benwasden8107 Yeah, there could be some crazy creatures out there in the deep water, but definitely not a 60 ton shark living in costal waters.
That's so smart. That will help with hard launch.
I think it's very arrogant to say this with such certainty. You don't even have film footage of a giant squid, and the vast majority of the oceans are unexplored.
Right? As if we've explored most of the ocean floor (we haven't, not even close)...
of course you can because no matter how hidden megalodon are, they need to eat and there is no trace of megalodon bite on whale if they even exist right now. unlike giant squid which we can see their trace on sperm whale.
@@bluelotus.society exploring ocean is irrelevant to proving megalodon still exist or not. trace of predatory activity from their prey is enough to proven their existence and not once it's ever found on whale or any place observable ocean. unlike giant squid which you can find their trace even without footage of them.
Why... Just why on earth would you even want it to be real?
@@danielmanriquegarcia6041 i don't want anything. I'm saying it's arrogant to claim anything that lives in the ocean is 100% extinct when we haven't even explored most of it. There are land animals that they thought extinct that still showed up in places
What are you talking about?
She is the daughter of Peter Griffin!
Only 5 percent of the ocean is explored so there prob still alive
Probably… not
Ah yes
"no."
Literally nothing of the ocean has been discovered @@joselitoluis7727
That 5 percent is a myth
Even If that were true - those creatures didn't live in 100% of the oceans.
Like they said - they preferred warmer waters. So it is 99,99% definite that they do not exist anymore
They lived in warm and shallow water, aka definitely the parts of the ocean we have explored
There is a lot of weird stuff down there but mostly small stuff, not a giant shark. Like there are probably thousands of undiscovered fish and jellyfish the size of your fist.
"They would have been seen by now"
Oh, you mean like the colossal squid that we've never seen and everyone just dismissed as folklore for centuries up until a few decades ago?
1. The first specimen was discovered in 1925, nearly a century ago, hardly "a few decades", especially when it comes to scientific advancement
2. Colossal squid are more similar to other extant squids than Megalodon is to any extant sharks, so it's more complicated to differentiate them
3. Colossal squid don't shed massive teeth that would be very easy to find
4. Colossal squid weigh less than a ton, Megalodon could regularly weigh up to 50-60 tonnes or higher, that weight requires a massive amount of food to maintain that we would absolutely need to see signs of, and also an amount it would struggle getting with any regularity in the deep ocean, or even just.. literally anywhere
5. Colossal squid actually live in the cold, deep ocean, something that Megalodon could not do without doing a massive 180° when it comes to a lot of their adaptations which is extremely unlikely compared to just extinction
TL;DR: Colossal squid and Megalodon can't really be compared in this way at all, and there's basically no way Megalodon still exist today, the chance is so incredibly, incredibly low that it's basically on the same level as Bigfoot
@@lilliefluff one of the only people who have a brain in thus comment section
Also they did prefer shallow water waters so that is another down side to why they couldn’t exist today
Have people forgot that only 5% of the ocean has been actually explored??? There is still 95% of the ocean it can still be swimming in.
Did you watch the video? The point is that it's not just about 'finding' them - there would be evidence of their existence even in the absence of an actual sighting.
What are they eating that we aren't finding animals with huge bite marks? What's happening to their teeth? What's happening to their DNA? What's happening to their carcasses when they do die? How are they finding each other in a way that doesn't attract the attention of our ultra sensitive military ocean monitoring equipment?
For reals people 🤦
Because most of that water is pretty much empty. You would think something that MONUMENTAL would show up someday wouldn't it? Megalodon's are coastal, warm water sharks - meaning they live relatively near the shore.
There are so MANY points against it, and as someone incredibly interested in Paleontology, it's frustrating to hear the same 3 ideas being used for "the Meg still exists"
I don't mean anything against you personally, I just see this all the time and it sucks that we're so hung up on this idea that a shark this massive still exists.
That statistic is based off open ocean. 24.9% of the ocean floor has been mapped, they would've found some proof by now.
We know there are big things out there. But the chance is low that there's still one around. Not impossible though
Ngl I think the coelacanth won that award
You know what is really down there? Leviathan.
Obsessed with the anatomically correct jellyfish in the background
Three seconds in and i already wanna leave (had to pause it to comment)
Proof 1. There isn't enough food to sustain it. 2. If it was alive we would've seen a body by now
For those of you who who are arguing that we thought the coelacanth and giant squid weren't real at first, the difference between those and the megalodon is that, even if they didn't exist, modern ecosystems could still, in theory, support organisms of their size and nature. There simply isn't a large enough and plentiful enough source of prey for a predatory shark that large in any modern ocean ecosystem we're aware of and ESPECIALLY not in the depths (which is probably why they went extinct in the first place, changing ecosystems lost the capacity to support them). If the megalodon did directly evolve into a shark that hides in the depths, the shark it is now would be a totally different animal than the megalodon was.
Fun fact: Megalodon's full name is Megatronlodon.
This makes me so depressed since I’ve always wanted something unknown to fear down there.
The fact that we are all going to die and the uncertainty of our reason for existence in the cosmos isn't good enough for you?
The new shedded teeth on the ocean floor is the most compelling evidence
I see Megalodons all the time. Just come to the middle of America at any Walmart and you’ll see some.
Don't be so sure... we humans think we know everything but really haven't a clue about life and reality
Maybe in the deepest depths of the oceans in Antarctica
Megalodon was a warm
Water surface fish, it wouldn’t survive those depths or temperatures
The fact that megalodon main prey was a type of whale means that if it were still around we would've found evidence of its attacks on whales by now.
If all else fails, common sense may prevail. Your argument is compelling. I agree with your observations. Nice video!
You have a higher chance ‘n finding a colossal squid, or a giant squid than a Megalodon since they’re clearly extinct
What dragged that massive shark so deep into the darkness of the ocean and ate it? The world still doesn't know
But you forget:
Decoy Megalodon.
We haven’t explored 90% of the ocean
We have, the 90% stat is just made up
we don’t have to
There's a lot mortals will never know
The tv remote is the best hider!
We should be searching for "the boogeyman" 😂😂😂
If they were around they need more oxygen than what's down in the depths