As some of you have pointed out, the size comparison we show at 9:36 features a humpback whale instead of a blue whale. That's my fault! The illustration (from a stock photo site) was improperly labeled and we missed the mistake in our review. We spent so much time making sure we had all of the extinct species depicted accurately that we missed the (enormously) obvious error right in front of us. Sorry for the mistake! -Seth
Very nice to see such a large channel take feedback from it's viewers I've been here since 100k and it's been great seeing you grow so fast your content is very well made
Hey, you are making precedent on how to correct the mistakes. It’s still weird ground for edutainment channels on the internet. Do your best and keep improving the process, you’ll be the examples for those that fallow.
You also sort of forgot to show the Megalodon with a blunt snout. Most people erroneously assume it looked just like a great white but bigger, when it surely would have some morphological distinctions.
Modern ocean ecosystems, in part, are the way they are as a direct result of Megalodon's presence and extinction, so in a way you literally do feel its presence!
@A Megalodon With Internet Connection I swim in the ocean at New Smyrna Beach, shark bite capital of the world. The best time would be in March when the shark migration occurs and there are 10s of thousands of sharks, many right up to the shore. You can hardly avoiding bumping into them. They show up about the same time as the tasty young college girls in thong bikinis for spring break. I am not sure it is a coincidence. Bigger sharks come there to eat the smaller ones, and that makes for an interesting show when a 12-15 foot hammerhead runs a few 5 foot blacktips up onto the beach, right between your feet. Exciting! When I'm not there, I swim at Blue Springs State Park. DeLeon Springs is another great place. Both are crystal clear natural springs in the St. John's river. The water temperature is the same year 'round, and these are the springs reportedly called "The Fountain of Youth" by Spanish explorer Ponce DeLeon. The St. John's river has, reportedly, the highest concentration of alligators in the world. It is connected to the ocean and they occasionally catch bull sharks in the river. Can you handle that? People like it because if you don't get eaten by an alligator, you will feel 10 years younger after swimming there. If you do get eaten...well, you won't be getting any older. Hence the name. I'm old, I have little to lose anyway. Take your choice. Of course there is the whole intercoastal waterway thing that runs the entire perimeter of the state between the mainland and the barrier islands, and has people swimming and BOTH sharks and alligators!
@@Tunamust3 My brother in Christ, where do you think it's hiding? At the bottom of the ocean? There's nothing for it to eat down there. It'd be hunting big game like whales and what not, which would keep it close to the surface which means we would have seen it by now.
Toby Gill I would probably just say what’s up and hangout with Mr. Megalodon. Seems like a chill dude. I could use his tooth to shotgun my beer and invite him to hangout. You know?
I swear if I see one more comment denying that they went extinct and their first argument is "Well, we have only explored 5% of our oceans so we don't know what's in the other 95%" imma flip the table.
I always assumed that megaladons evolved into great whites because we know certain animals, like crocodiles, used to be ginormous. I definitely learned a lot of new stuff! I also feel like even if they still existed, we wouldn't have to worry too much because sharks don't like the taste of humans, and we would be too small to satisfy their appetite
the number of annual crocodile attacks is about 1k, whereas in 2022, there were _57_ shark attacks globally. so honestly we *DONT* have to worry nowadays either, the chances of being bitten by _any_ shark species is so slim it’s silly to suggest otherwise
Tarcisio Neves Why would we be long gone? I think humans are more likely to ruin the planet and move to a new one then go extinct before the rest of our planets animals. Humans are pretty darn adaptable. Sharks in the other hand are so hard to keep alive that we generally can’t even keep them in captivity very successfully except for a few species. That’s why you don’t see tanks full of great white sharks at the zoo, they usually just die in captivity.
I find it interesting that whales grew AFTER the Megaladon went extinct. My assumption would have been that whales growing bigger and therefore less consumable (through micro/macro evolution and natural selection) would be the factor that put pressure on the Megaladons.
@@ChinnuWoW well no, but surely if different gigantic sharks replaced each and every species of whales (even just larger ones as well though) could you imagine how dangerous it would be to go in the ocean?
I came across this video by accident, but absolutely love everything about sharks - Having great respect for them. Watching this video makes me want to watch The Meg again 🙈
The amount of studying and work and investigation to have this clear a story of this ancient creature, out of what fossils and evidence exists today, is mindboggling.
90% of it is based on assumption and pure guess work based on perilously few data points in the fossil record, and more pure assumption based on climate models that are 100% wrong even today. Nice story; but in 100 years it will be completely different, and totally different again in another century. We need to feel we know things, but we don’t. Assumption on assumption on assumption baed upon almost no real data, whose interpretation is itself based on assumptions. You don’t get larger to eat larger prey, that’s NOT how Darwinian evolution works, which is all based on random genetic defects, not a perceived opportunity. Adaptation is NOT what evolution claims happens, as there is ZERO evidence that need or environmental factors proactively influence the creation of supposedly random genetic mutations. epigenetics will eventually re-write evolutionary theory, demonstrating that adaptation to environmental factors can effect DNA and become hereditary( DARWIN WAS WRONG) and the 96% of DNA that is not considered “genes”’ that many biologists ignorantly call “irrelevant” and “noise” will be revealed to be the driving forces in evolution and Darwinian theory can finally be thrown onto the scrap heap where it belongs. The irony is that scientists, so desperate to defeat creationism, forgot about science and missed what was staring them in the face for so long. They were so emotionally wed to a position, in spite of the dearth of data and logic, it became their own religion. Hopefully that will end soon.
that's nuts.. they extinct because we killed them. you see these predators including Dinosaurs etc were the biggest threat for our mankind extinction. Therefore we as you know 'human' had no choice but to eliminate every single one of them.
Whenever I get people concerned with some sort of monstrous predator I like to point out they are part of a species that used to prey on the largest animal on the planet just to get slightly better lighter fluid.
@@Robespierre-lI survival mechanism now? I think it's an advantage to search for more possible dangers and stuff+ it's just fascinating to see animals this size :)
@@Schlummigumpfrvival mechanism ? People don't know anything, "humans" know tons of things, individual making those comments point what we don't know while still ignoring 99% of the knowledge available to us. If there was a survival mechanism it'd certainly be to learn about what we've available first.
The last remaining Megaladons only started disappearing a few decades ago, when their natural predetor, the Jason Statham, started appearing in our oceans.
Tell you what, it's nice to see an actual human being talking about this stuff and not just some AI/dumb down jock voice-over cruising across some grabbed general footagé.
Yuuji Kazami 2 million is a tiny amount of time, when talking about the geological time periods you speak in hundreds of millions of years. Plus earth is 4.5 billion years old.
8:10 Imagine minding your own fhisbusiness and swimming through the oceans like every year and then south and north america out of nowhere say : Nope. We are closed for today. And forever.
It’s thought that orcas helped drive megalodon to extinction. Because they are better, highly intelligent hunters who outcompete them for food. and also because orca packs could easily prey on young smaller megaladons the same way they annihilate great white sharks today
Orcas could probably hunt megalodons if they were in a pod of 4-8 orcas, like dolphins can frighten great whites away and some orca pods are known for hunting blue whales and other whales,
We are all stupid in some way... Consider George Carlin "Think about this; think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that."
Mapping ocean surfaces is a lot different from somehow missing even fossils of an 18 meter long shark that are within a million years of us, especially given its habitat.
Listen I know they no longer exist. The evidence would be there if they were still kicking around but whenever I set foot into the ocean, or a particularly dark swimming pool, all logic and sense leaves my brain and I will convince myself that I’m about to be devoured by a giant shark. Loved the video lmao
LUNA streamFREESOMEBODY not necessarily, there is still a huge amount of the ocean that we haven’t yet explored. I believe they could still be with us.
When I was 5 we went to Disney World and for some reason I was convinced there were sharks in the water of the "It's a Small World" ride. Seriously. I must have stumbled across Jaws on TV at some point in my childhood.
@@realdaggerman105 Never said they would, shark attacks are rare and people still have fears, Spiders are one of the most common phobias and yet where I am from there are only two easily identifiable and quite rare (I've never seen one) venomous species that are deadly to humans. I love sharks, but some people are terrified of the ocean just because of them.
Ronindrix - Only people in the long-awaited undersea cities that hopefully will appear by the time evolution can accomplish exponentially growing whites to megalodon size. :)
Sounds like maybe you’re working for the Mega’s. “Don’t worry folks they’re all gone, now hop your juicy little awkward bodies into the ocean. The farther out the better. The water is so nice there. “ I’m on to you.
But to them, in terms of size and nutritional value, I'm pretty sure humans are chicken nuggets. If you saw a single chicken nugget in front of you, when with a little effort you can obtain a Whopper Whale, I think most would go for the Whopper Whale. So I doubt we're actually even that interesting to Mega-toothed sharks.
@@Jojo-hy8dm They do prioritize their hunting options. Hunting takes energy. And instead of hunting a lot of smaller preys with less energy in return, they will hunt bigger preys that suit their consumption. And only in case of extremely hungry predators, should small preys be in target of one. Which wouldn't happen a lot, since the predators would want to keep themselves filled, not hungry to the level of settling for small preys.
Gigalodons went extinct before it existed. They require a lot of resources to run. So evolution shelves its blueprint into a corner. And it doesn't take long for him to realize Meg has to go too. Poor Meg.
But blue whales are pretty friendly. They don’t eat people on purpose. They just open their mouths, expecting plankton and tiny fishes. As an additional, blue whales can’t see.
Im on vacation and I hate swimming in the pool. I hate that I’m scared. I hate how I’m stupid enough to think that a 20ft shark will come out of nowhere to swallow me whole.
I think that will just be a matter of time. In a few million years, when there will be hardly any trace of us left, the sharks will still (or once again) roam the seas.
Title: Explains exactly what this video is about Video: Describes exactly what the title says and is packed with scientific evidence, facts and information People: Dislikes videos ????? How and why people
I didnt dislike it but I hear to many maybe and probably used in an a "scientific" explanation and the red lights go off in my head. In short they are guessing and while many a PhD has their personal guess I just going to go with they are dead and it happened along time ago. Why it happened who knows
It actually evolved in the Miocene and went extinct before the shark did. It was NOT a newly evolved competitor for the shark as the video wrongly claims, it was a competitor the shark was able to handle and ended up outlasting.
@@bkjeong4302 "It was NOT a newly evolved competitor", "it was a competitor". The shark is older, so i guess the problem here is not the "newly part". Regardless, can't we at least say that the whale was a big push back on the shark's success, and maybe, although "lost the race", was a reason for the weakening of the sharks?
honestly giant shars returning would probably be stopped by orcas before they become megalodon size, the meg didn't have to deal with organized social killer whales, just other brutes like lyviaten
@@JonPITBZN I agree it would be exciting. I also think it would be exciting to enter the Earth's atmosphere with a broken heat shield. With that said, I think it would be fascinating to see what comes next, even if it is terrifying, and that is where I think you're coming from.
k R agree.,also apparently megalodon got so big as whales grew, it grew too. Whereas now the whales are "already grown" so I can't see how this shark would evolve. Maybe an orca could keep getting bigger?
Fact checking this video: The largest megalodon tooth available to authors in 2021 was GHC6,which produced size estimates for the shark going from 17.4 to 24.2m. The range had a mean of around 20.3m. But, the authors themselves mention there are many teeth larger than GHC6 around the world, so now you can just imagine Megalodon's size... A lot of people think Megalodon was some made up fantasy like Godzilla or Optimus, but this just shows you what nature can emanate...
You can't "fact check" a guessing game. GH 6 had a crown of 5.2 inches. There are records of teeth with crowns of 7 inches. A 7 inch crown yields an estimate of up to a 23 meter fish, with a 3-4 meter range of error.
As some of you have pointed out, the size comparison we show at 9:36 features a humpback whale instead of a blue whale. That's my fault! The illustration (from a stock photo site) was improperly labeled and we missed the mistake in our review. We spent so much time making sure we had all of the extinct species depicted accurately that we missed the (enormously) obvious error right in front of us. Sorry for the mistake! -Seth
Very nice to see such a large channel take feedback from it's viewers I've been here since 100k and it's been great seeing you grow so fast your content is very well made
Hey, you are making precedent on how to correct the mistakes. It’s still weird ground for edutainment channels on the internet. Do your best and keep improving the process, you’ll be the examples for those that fallow.
We still love you.
not a big deal, this channel is amazing!
You also sort of forgot to show the Megalodon with a blunt snout. Most people erroneously assume it looked just like a great white but bigger, when it surely would have some morphological distinctions.
we know the megaladon is gone but when i go into the water i still feel its presence
that's your fear of sharks then lmao.
Especially when night swimming in the beach I get this really eerie feeling hehehe
Modern ocean ecosystems, in part, are the way they are as a direct result of Megalodon's presence and extinction, so in a way you literally do feel its presence!
Their souls are still swimming in the ocean
megalodon's impact
I discovered that when I am in the ocean, my reactions to a piece of seaweed touching my leg and a Megalodon attacking me are exactly the same.
I only swim in pools; I'm too scared of other water bodies because of the fear of having any water animal attacking me
@@olalekanmayowa4023 I live in Florida. Sometimes there are alligators in our swimming pools.
@@garyK.45ACP My aunt lives in Florida.
@A Megalodon With Internet Connection
I swim in the ocean at New Smyrna Beach, shark bite capital of the world.
The best time would be in March when the shark migration occurs and there are 10s of thousands of sharks, many right up to the shore. You can hardly avoiding bumping into them. They show up about the same time as the tasty young college girls in thong bikinis for spring break. I am not sure it is a coincidence.
Bigger sharks come there to eat the smaller ones, and that makes for an interesting show when a 12-15 foot hammerhead runs a few 5 foot blacktips up onto the beach, right between your feet. Exciting!
When I'm not there, I swim at Blue Springs State Park. DeLeon Springs is another great place. Both are crystal clear natural springs in the St. John's river. The water temperature is the same year 'round, and these are the springs reportedly called "The Fountain of Youth" by Spanish explorer Ponce DeLeon.
The St. John's river has, reportedly, the highest concentration of alligators in the world. It is connected to the ocean and they occasionally catch bull sharks in the river. Can you handle that? People like it because if you don't get eaten by an alligator, you will feel 10 years younger after swimming there. If you do get eaten...well, you won't be getting any older. Hence the name.
I'm old, I have little to lose anyway.
Take your choice.
Of course there is the whole intercoastal waterway thing that runs the entire perimeter of the state between the mainland and the barrier islands, and has people swimming and BOTH sharks and alligators!
@A Megalodon With Internet Connection lmao
It’s crazy when you think that at one point in time the last megladon was swimming being the only one left of its kind.
Ofcourse it does. Imagine your the last kind of human on earth
GutterPunk never thought like that... now I’m sorry for that megladon😢
SKtheMage 1234 damn.. that was deep...
Damn
Man tried to survive for its people and be the comeback its species needed...
😢😢
"Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct"
Because it was over-fished by Hollywood studios in order to
figure in disaster movies.
yet another child star lost do to Hollywood
"I know you're smarter than that"
Me: "oh god someone else I'm about to disappoint"
Same homie 😂😂
Finally an original comment on TH-cam.
Haha 😆
But, Jason Statham...?
Fr 🤣
"Sand tigers, goblins, threshers, and great whites." Sharks get the most metal names.
Or metal music members must mimic much mam ;)
hammerhead and bull shark exuberate thrash metal energy
Idk “great white” might be a controversial band name
Nurse shark
Cookie cutter shark :D
Megalodon: *goes extinct*
Whales: alright boys, let's get to work
She reminds me of that really nice teacher that enjoys her job
@@alexanderwilisow3633 huh
Huh, huh??
@@alexanderwilisow3633 huh
@@alexanderwilisow3633 huh?
The amount of people who legit think the Meg is still around despite all evidence against it concerns me.
You should hear about all the people who think the earth is shaped like a plate
@@fart63 here me out we terraform mars then move smart people there then we nuke earth till not even bacteria at the bottom of the ocean survive
I believe meg exist because most parts of the oceans were undiscovered
@@Tunamust3 My brother in Christ, where do you think it's hiding? At the bottom of the ocean? There's nothing for it to eat down there. It'd be hunting big game like whales and what not, which would keep it close to the surface which means we would have seen it by now.
@@Tunamust3- and people with limited brain mass use one percent of brain matter lol
Megalodons actually sound so scary, like imagine seeing an 18m long shadow just pass beneath you in the water..
If they were alive, whoever go in the water bought that
Toby Gill I would probably just say what’s up and hangout with Mr. Megalodon. Seems like a chill dude. I could use his tooth to shotgun my beer and invite him to hangout. You know?
Dude, I'm already scared of my bathtub . . .
And blue whales arn’t scary?
@@thecrippledpancake9455 at least blue whales arent looking to eat you
She reminds me of that really nice teacher that enjoys her job
She enjoys cheeseburgers more!
@@MrMichaelFire you need to chill man
@@MrMichaelFire what?
I never had one of those....
Is it the shark?
“Whales today face few predators”
Humans: *intense sweating*
Lol 😂
*japanese
@@Salvo900 all humans*
😅😅😅
Shaduckles I know right even in Wisconsin is getting way to hot normally it’s warm but still cool in summer
I swear if I see one more comment denying that they went extinct and their first argument is "Well, we have only explored 5% of our oceans so we don't know what's in the other 95%" imma flip the table.
Hey its you again!
@@thecreature916 And you are..?
@@The_Fancy_Duckshush
@@sashafiedbe quiet, little boy
Both you and them are people sitting at home on their computers speculating about the ocean.. Neither is of much use.
Hmm sounds like something a megalodon would say
Had me rolling on the floor 😂😂😂
Genuinely made me laugh
Czarcasm Hahahaha I’m dead man😭😭😭
😂
HAHAHAHA
I kinda feel sorry for Piscobalaena. It got bullied by all the sharks
: Body slam : :punches: :Beats up:
yeah basically lol
Dude was just tryna vibe
Yes
Simp
When you swim with a blue whale then it smiles with megalodon teeth.
*oof sound effect intensifies*
M43 t0 LOL
*run*
Lol
@@Moonlight-fi2lc *running is not possible in the ocean unless you can walk on water*
@@hamslice4777 *I CAN WALK ON WATER ALL OF A SUDDEN*
I always assumed that megaladons evolved into great whites because we know certain animals, like crocodiles, used to be ginormous.
I definitely learned a lot of new stuff! I also feel like even if they still existed, we wouldn't have to worry too much because sharks don't like the taste of humans, and we would be too small to satisfy their appetite
Crocodiles can still get ginormous
@trequor ya like 20+ feet but the prehistoric ones were 30-40ft
@@TheGintama86deinosuchus hatcheris latest estimate puts it at 50 some times😭
We still eat appetizers 😖
the number of annual crocodile attacks is about 1k, whereas in 2022, there were _57_ shark attacks globally. so honestly we *DONT* have to worry nowadays either, the chances of being bitten by _any_ shark species is so slim it’s silly to suggest otherwise
This lady deserves a medal just for pronouncing all of those fancy names correctly.
Ikr
She def had a degree in like paleontology
Seriously she does
Definitely. I’ll have to take her out to dinner to show my appreciation
Fax
I have a Megalodon at home.
Well, it's actually a goldfish, but he's named Megalodon.
Ralph Vermolen you had us in the first half not gonna lie
Alexander Chen uh
😂
it's not ever going to remember you
🤣🥺
Pour out a little liquor for my homie Megalodon. Gone but not forgotten.
Cheers!
Megalo-GONE
the hood lost a real one today
@@connorgawne-mark6929 get. out.
He's up there with Tupac
Even trough I know Megalodon is definitely extinct I can still feel its soul is still swimming down there
that's eerie. the ghost of an extinct species haunting it's home.
There is actually a reason for that. Your natural instinct from your ancestors tells you to be wary of the water.
@@fart63thank you for that important message fart63
"Giant sharks may patrol our oceans again."
Yeah, we megalodon't want that.
DrThunder88 this needs more likes
*send* *help*
Get out
Lmao 😂😂
the world will be on fire by then lol
These were at the bottom of every pool when I was growing up
I hade the same issue, i couldnt go into a pool without wearing swim glasses, in order to look around under water every 5 seconds so i can feel save
Yes.... that
and the creature from that Are you afraid of the dark episode...
I dont own a pool or went to any pool
When I was little, I always thought there was a shark that would eat me whenever I drained the water in the bathtub.
Yep, I always imagined there was a creature below me in a swimming pool. Gave myself a heart attack every time, not sure why.
“And that giant sharks might patrol out oceans once again”
How comforting....
i mean they wont FIT anywhere near where you swim at the beach but lets say a person falls overboard a boat or cruise, then theres a possibility.
@@sam-dy2ho Bruh the megaladon would've eaten the whole boat 😂
We'll be long gone if/when that happens lol
Tarcisio Neves Why would we be long gone? I think humans are more likely to ruin the planet and move to a new one then go extinct before the rest of our planets animals. Humans are pretty darn adaptable. Sharks in the other hand are so hard to keep alive that we generally can’t even keep them in captivity very successfully except for a few species. That’s why you don’t see tanks full of great white sharks at the zoo, they usually just die in captivity.
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I find it interesting that whales grew AFTER the Megaladon went extinct. My assumption would have been that whales growing bigger and therefore less consumable (through micro/macro evolution and natural selection) would be the factor that put pressure on the Megaladons.
“I know you’re smarter than that”
Heh heh
Don’t overestimate me
Lmao 😂💀 me!
Idk why but your profile picture made this comment even more hilarious.
SubwayPhreshh ok chubs
Finna sound nerdy but the ocean is more unexplored than the galaxy so things like this could exist
Pubg Mobile players You can’t use the word “finna” and expect to sound nerdy.
I really am wasting my summer vacation with these videos
TacticalDireGames shjsjs im supposed to be doing my assignment my submissions in 2 days LMAO
Go read a book
ASDFGHL 💀💀goodluck
TacticalDireGames same
Same
Title:Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
recommendations: *10 reasons the megalodon still exists*
._.
😂😂😂😂
Lol
嵐 風Bluewind LOL
@嵐 風Bluewind I love irony
@@muzankibutsuji622 not irony, coincidence
That’s so cool about the tree ring portion!!! How cool!
Im just glad to have bigger whales than bigger sharks
Aren't whales going extinct now due to climate change and global warming?
Why? They wouldn't be a threat to anything that lives on the land.
human would just build a bigger stronger ship and hunt it down for bigger bowl of shark fin soup.
@@ChinnuWoW well no, but surely if different gigantic sharks replaced each and every species of whales (even just larger ones as well though) could you imagine how dangerous it would be to go in the ocean?
No threat to land until they learn flight
My body at 2AM: Sleep. Need sleep.
Brain at 3AM: But why is the Megalodon extinct? Answers. We need answers.
Travis VanAlst haha I’m there now lol
*copies a comment*
I dont need sleep I need answers
Y do the answers need answers
Now I need answers....
All I’m saying is, I think it would be hilarious if it was a a tiny shark with one giant tooth
I like your thinking 😎✨🤚
It was
true
😂😂😂
Well
You could be right
I came across this video by accident, but absolutely love everything about sharks - Having great respect for them. Watching this video makes me want to watch The Meg again 🙈
I watch that movie EVERYTIME it's on TV and it continues to blow my mind how entertaining it is
2020: "write that down, write that down."
Bruh😂
Bro we gonna have medlos again 😓😓🤣
If WW3 breaks out this year, I’m not joining the Navy
loll
By Summer, we’re gonna be fearing the Mechalodon!
A malfunctioning robot Megalodon that goes on a rampage
"i know your smarter then that"
Me: "blushes"
Lmao *than
you're* lol
@Dimitrije Kulak lmao get a life dimitrij
chaos how’s he gonna get a life rn🥺
I*
The amount of studying and work and investigation to have this clear a story of this ancient creature, out of what fossils and evidence exists today, is mindboggling.
90% of it is based on assumption and pure guess work based on perilously few data points in the fossil record, and more pure assumption based on climate models that are 100% wrong even today. Nice story; but in 100 years it will be completely different, and totally different again in another century. We need to feel we know things, but we don’t. Assumption on assumption on assumption baed upon almost no real data, whose interpretation is itself based on assumptions. You don’t get larger to eat larger prey, that’s NOT how Darwinian evolution works, which is all based on random genetic defects, not a perceived opportunity. Adaptation is NOT what evolution claims happens, as there is ZERO evidence that need or environmental factors proactively influence the creation of supposedly random genetic mutations. epigenetics will eventually re-write evolutionary theory, demonstrating that adaptation to environmental factors can effect DNA and become hereditary( DARWIN WAS WRONG) and the 96% of DNA that is not considered “genes”’ that many biologists ignorantly call “irrelevant” and “noise” will be revealed to be the driving forces in evolution and Darwinian theory can finally be thrown onto the scrap heap where it belongs. The irony is that scientists, so desperate to defeat creationism, forgot about science and missed what was staring them in the face for so long. They were so emotionally wed to a position, in spite of the dearth of data and logic, it became their own religion. Hopefully that will end soon.
@@cbrend22 bro you just typed out pure nonsense.
@@cbrend22 ok
that's nuts.. they extinct because we killed them. you see these predators including Dinosaurs etc were the biggest threat for our mankind extinction. Therefore we as you know 'human' had no choice but to eliminate every single one of them.
@@pakkagewa4591 ayo what you talking about ?
The fact people think megalodons are still alive and argue about it mindboggles me.
A lot of people are really stupid.
Indeed
When the whales population decrease
Megalodon: *'ight imma go extinct*
'Ight I'mma afk
I prefer to think of it as permanent hybernation lol
@@baddonkey75 Sharks dont do it
Blue whale ight imma head out
@@Buh1444 Normal Sharks: 'ight imma head out
Megalodon: *dies*
Whales: finally, survival is secured
Humans: hold my beer
They were killed off by Orcas.
@Jeff Sha yeah
Whenever I get people concerned with some sort of monstrous predator I like to point out they are part of a species that used to prey on the largest animal on the planet just to get slightly better lighter fluid.
😳😢
TH-cam comments: cringe
Jeff Sha: hold my beer
It’s still crazy to me how little we know about are own ocean and what could be hiding down there
@@Robespierre-lI survival mechanism now? I think it's an advantage to search for more possible dangers and stuff+ it's just fascinating to see animals this size :)
@@Robespierre-lI we all want what we can’t have. the more we get, the more we want.
We'll it ain't Megaladons that's for sure. Unless it's developed into a new species of pancake shark.
@@Schlummigumpfrvival mechanism ? People don't know anything, "humans" know tons of things, individual making those comments point what we don't know while still ignoring 99% of the knowledge available to us.
If there was a survival mechanism it'd certainly be to learn about what we've available first.
Yeah, consider the coelocanth !
The last remaining Megaladons only started disappearing a few decades ago, when their natural predetor, the Jason Statham, started appearing in our oceans.
Nice
Jason Statham became the new apex predator and continues to thrive to this very day.
@Smunstu Stinkymonster 👏🏼
@Smunstu Stinkymonster lmao nice starship troopers reference I just brought it on dvd n been watching it then come across this comment on random lol
This is a reference isnt it
Me At 11pm - Ight Sleep Time
Me At 2am - Wow Sharkeyy!!
Me at 5am
hahahah
4:48 AM baby👌
@@bramdaandels5335 same rn
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The 5.4K dislikes are from megalodons
Wow your comment was next to the original one
@@Drone-ri5nz Which original one?
I found another comment like this with much more likes and its older
@@Drone-ri5nz I didn't see or copy it
@@dreamer6432 I didn't see it either and thought this was gold
Tell you what, it's nice to see an actual human being talking about this stuff and not just some AI/dumb down jock voice-over cruising across some grabbed general footagé.
Anyone wonder how they ended up here after watching nothing related to this?
hell yes
I was watching kylo ren talking to kids at Disney world... then this popped up and I was like 🤔
I watch a lot of these kind of videos because they are kind of interesting
Just watching video game related channels with zero relation to marine life and bam.
Mathijs v R no
"that's why they appeared only recently"
*Only 2 million years ago*
In the basis of the archaeological and fossil record 2.6 million years is an incredibly short period of time.
Yuuji Kazami 2 million is a tiny amount of time, when talking about the geological time periods you speak in hundreds of millions of years. Plus earth is 4.5 billion years old.
2 million years ago was very recent the universe is 16 billion years old
But the Earth's only 6000 yrs old.
/S
Toxxic JRock The earth is not 6,000 years old lol 😂
Her: "I know you're smarter than that"
Me: "..How dare you patronize me"
Yeah, big nope from me when channels do stuff like that.
i'M sO TrIgGeReD rIgHt NoW!
Yeah but that isnt what I wanna hear so Imma go to an illegitimate source that confirms my confirmation bias
I love how the absence of megalodons turned Earth's whales from roombas to stanley steamers
Viccolas Vic AHAHAHAHAH
Correlation isn't causation.
Buffs and Nerfs
They turned into carpet cleaners?
@@AnonYmous-ob7py I don't see how the disappearance of large whales' only predator wouldn't cause them to grow larger.
*Megaladon has left the chat.*
Whales: That's a relief.
*Giant Squid has entered the chat.*
Whales: *Intense sweating*
In case you dont know, some whales eat giant squid.
@@kronkepus3671 Only sperm whales as far as I know.
@@McconneIIRet Still. Giant Squid does not hunt whales
@@kronkepus3671 There's no evidence to support that.
@@McconneIIRet tell me how a giant squid can attack and kill a whale
I desperately NEED to learn more about prehistoric carnivorous whales
MUST know more asap!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livyatan
Or prehistoric polar bears.
Won't lie, that Livyatan Melvilli sends chills down my spine. That is one toothy scare.
what is that nightmare spermwhale??
Everytime i see that megalodon picture, i can't stop imagining it with a jawline😭😭
The megaladon payed you to say this didn’t he
paid*
@@k.laixxx gonna be honest i dont rlly care lol thank you tho
Dull joke.
Cmon ppl they just tried to make a joke, gosh
@@jenneric03 u don't care abt spelling either 😬
*Can't lie,*
*this is better than school.*
This is the result of decades of school and research...
I am supposed to be doing school and you know this is educational so I’m gonna count it 😂
Isaiah Suon youre the result of not going to school tho
Don't study for pre-history, watch PBS Eons instead!
agree alot of history
Don’t know how I ended up here but I am here great video
The Meg brought me here!
Me too. That girl is thick. I wana show her my megalodon
Yeah....these things happen....somehow
most boring answer...youtube's algorithm
I got it as a sidebar suggestion on "Boot Scootin Boogie"
8:10 Imagine minding your own fhisbusiness and swimming through the oceans like every year and then south and north america out of nowhere say : Nope. We are closed for today. And forever.
Megalodon: *Goes extinct*
Whales: GUYS HE'S GONE! LETS PARTY!!!
Chill Link stfu kid
@tryndaOP is that a Bill Wurtz reference
tryndaOP no it’s a reference to crab rave
KylerYT LOL
Your mad
176Blue lol
Piscobalaena was having a bad time :(
A bad few thousand years.
Poor wales.😔😥
me: i should get a good night sleep
my brain: watch this video at 3 am
But it's only 2:45 a.m. I love it when the comments are accurate to my time
anna this is literally me right now (except it’s 4:30 am)
It's just a little over 3 am for me lol 😂
literally me rn
Literally what I’m doing now? Lol ❤️
Pretty neat to see how much geography can effect entire species
I’m just imagining all the Orcas having a celebration after the Megalodons went extinct because they were now the top of the food chain 😂
true
Just an INFP-T Person orcas didn’t ixist lol
@@barbarjinx3802 well maybe they did because if great white sharks existed then orcas probably did to, but maybe not.
It’s thought that orcas helped drive megalodon to extinction. Because they are better, highly intelligent hunters who outcompete them for food. and also because orca packs could easily prey on young smaller megaladons the same way they annihilate great white sharks today
Orcas could probably hunt megalodons if they were in a pod of 4-8 orcas, like dolphins can frighten great whites away and some orca pods are known for hunting blue whales and other whales,
"i know youre smarter than that" i dont know, ive seen me do some stupid things in my life.
zactly. i took some offence to that. trigger warning, confusion and trauma. carniferous plasticine whales ruined it for me.
We are all stupid in some way... Consider George Carlin "Think about this; think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that."
How dare she suggest we're not stupid!!
Megalodon's extinction in a nutshell: *I'm hungry*
Sylveon Chan *Megalodon dies from hunger*
*Megaladon starved to death*
Me 🤣
Just knowing that something big once lived in those waters makes me extremely queasy
Yeah, but ‘once lived’ pretty sure whales exist mate. I’m just trying to be a douche rn, have a lovely day mate
Think about all the whale poop in the water instead
Ocean explored: 5%
Documentation of ocean life: 110%
Michael Munoz exactly lol
srsly...
Exactly
Mapping ocean surfaces is a lot different from somehow missing even fossils of an 18 meter long shark that are within a million years of us, especially given its habitat.
Michael Munoz
I don’t know about that one man, we’re still finding animals in the deep oceans, don’t be so sure lol.
" So there is a chance we could see another megga shark in our waters again"
2020- interesting
She’s foreshadowing June
Wdym
Maneater game or something?
One could have re-evolved in that timeframe TBF.
PLS
No one searched fo this...
It was in our recommendations....
It’s been 2 years...
Calling it now. 2020 is going to throw these guys back at us at some point this year.
@@luxintenebris1776 yep
@@luxintenebris1776 HAND ON YOU SAID THAT IN 2020
I HAVE BEEN TRICKED!
Half Baked Studios he meat later in the year not rn
No cap. I waz like why hell is this here
This was so cool and interesting to learn about, thank you for this video!!
Listen I know they no longer exist. The evidence would be there if they were still kicking around but whenever I set foot into the ocean, or a particularly dark swimming pool, all logic and sense leaves my brain and I will convince myself that I’m about to be devoured by a giant shark.
Loved the video lmao
LUNA streamFREESOMEBODY not necessarily, there is still a huge amount of the ocean that we haven’t yet explored. I believe they could still be with us.
Same! I can’t swim in swimming pools alone. I get crazy anxiety. I used to be afraid to even sit in a bathtub lol.
Herc Apples glad I’m not alone (I can take baths fine). Pools on the other hand I get very anxious about sharks...
@@lawlee667 I wish I couldnt say that was me too, I'm still anxious with pools until I've been in for a while
When I was 5 we went to Disney World and for some reason I was convinced there were sharks in the water of the "It's a Small World" ride. Seriously. I must have stumbled across Jaws on TV at some point in my childhood.
I feel like half of what she just said was all curses being casted on me.
Thechristopherryan 😂😂😂💃🏻
The likes are at 666 so I cannot like.
Watch Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong, not only because they use way more confusing words but because they make great content in general
1k
I like how this video ends in a hopeful tone, for something that would be a lot of peoples worst nightmare.
Killer whales will rule, not the sharks
Ronindrix why would a big shark hunt people
@@realdaggerman105 Never said they would, shark attacks are rare and people still have fears, Spiders are one of the most common phobias and yet where I am from there are only two easily identifiable and quite rare (I've never seen one) venomous species that are deadly to humans. I love sharks, but some people are terrified of the ocean just because of them.
@@ronindrix2272 Jesse Cox springs to mind. Watching him being forced to play games with sharks in is hilarious
Ronindrix - Only people in the long-awaited undersea cities that hopefully will appear by the time evolution can accomplish exponentially growing whites to megalodon size. :)
Finally a video where they don't try to prove the Meg still exists. Good job.
Sounds like maybe you’re working for the Mega’s. “Don’t worry folks they’re all gone, now hop your juicy little awkward bodies into the ocean. The farther out the better. The water is so nice there. “ I’m on to you.
But to them, in terms of size and nutritional value, I'm pretty sure humans are chicken nuggets. If you saw a single chicken nugget in front of you, when with a little effort you can obtain a Whopper Whale, I think most would go for the Whopper Whale. So I doubt we're actually even that interesting to Mega-toothed sharks.
@@inferiorinferno8859 You working for the Megas??
@@inferiorinferno8859 unless they're craving for some human nuggets
@@inferiorinferno8859 I don’t know if they’re that smart, especially when they’re hungry, but you might be on to something
@@Jojo-hy8dm
They do prioritize their hunting options.
Hunting takes energy. And instead of hunting a lot of smaller preys with less energy in return, they will hunt bigger preys that suit their consumption.
And only in case of extremely hungry predators, should small preys be in target of one. Which wouldn't happen a lot, since the predators would want to keep themselves filled, not hungry to the level of settling for small preys.
well we gonna find out when we storm area 51 aquarium
Who would actually do that 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
No we will find when we storm Bermuda Triangle
Clara Saunders
I would 😂😂
Well those millions of people are gonna die
1000 Megalodon = 1 Gigalidon
1000 Gigalidons = 1 Teradon?
Gigalodons went extinct before it existed. They require a lot of resources to run. So evolution shelves its blueprint into a corner. And it doesn't take long for him to realize Meg has to go too. Poor Meg.
This scares me.
Yeah no
@@robotbjorn4952 1024
It is so difficult for us humans to comprehend the length of time these things were in the ocean before going extinct..
She said the Megaladon would be defeated by the greatest and I thought
Me:Wait DONT TELL ME THERES SOMETHING BIGGER AND SCARIER?!
ammm
*BlUe WhAlE* could/can grow up to 100 feet so... yes
But blue whales are pretty friendly. They don’t eat people on purpose. They just open their mouths, expecting plankton and tiny fishes. As an additional, blue whales can’t see.
That was the same thing I thought lol
Monique :p sharks don’t eat people on purpose either!!
@@mawnmower we are talking about the ancient ones........
Just tryna figure out how she said all the sharks names so smoothly without messing up-
Editing
@@rickydawson9757 thats nice.
@@m_i_g_5108 mhmmmmm thats niceee
Rehearsal
That’s funny
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This is by far the best comment on this video and you deserve more likes
P E R M A N T LY
You can bold words by putting * around words *see?*
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Megalodon "I'm BAAACK!"
DevilGirl 7 *yup*
Im on vacation and I hate swimming in the pool. I hate that I’m scared. I hate how I’m stupid enough to think that a 20ft shark will come out of nowhere to swallow me whole.
@@glennjpanting2081 lmaooo thanks for that😭😭
"So the giant sharks may patrol our ocean once again."
"Nah, not happening... "
"Why?"
"Does Homo Sapien sound familiar?"
For real 🤣
Doubt we would allow it 🤣
I think that will just be a matter of time.
In a few million years, when there will be hardly any trace of us left, the sharks will still (or once again) roam the seas.
@@7shinta7 In case we didn't annihilate them before we do to ourselves.
@@ginn1902
It's possible, yet unlikely imho. The sea is vast...
From learning from history
The bigger your species are…
The bigger chance your species is gonna become extinct
More like the longer your species stays big the greater the chance of extinction.
Happy Boi rip tall people
@@jordynblair1262 eye- rip me then
Humans are like a foot taller than we used to be, I think
@@Toneill029 you basically just said the same exact thing
Title: Explains exactly what this video is about
Video: Describes exactly what the title says and is packed with scientific evidence, facts and information
People: Dislikes videos
????? How and why people
My theory is that the dislikes are promoted by the academic tone of the video.
They probably expected a Nikki Swiftesque list.
People that are salty at her for saying the megaladon is extinct because they’re dumb enough to believe it’s alive in a Mariana Trench
I didnt dislike it but I hear to many maybe and probably used in an a "scientific" explanation and the red lights go off in my head. In short they are guessing and while many a PhD has their personal guess I just going to go with they are dead and it happened along time ago. Why it happened who knows
Cus jason statham wasn't featured in the story at all.
There's a word to describe this strange otherworldly phenomenon, it's widely known as an opinion.
Finally someone else who thinks meglodon is extinct and not still alive
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Why do I feel like this would be in a bill wurts video?
It should be the other way around you spaz lmao
@@nalydnocab3448 ?
What's the name of the server?
@@nalydnocab3448 what?
The scariest shark of all time...
Has a double chin
Turtle Lizard lol
Peter griffin
@@nab_tm Peter Griffith*
Lol
Turtle Lizard him and me both
Me at 3 am: Why did the megalodon not survive?
Me: *I DOONTT NEEEd SLEEP i NEED ANSWeRs*
Literally me run on meh dad's tablet lol
I just so agree
Cause I'm on meh dad's tablet en XD
Lol
Strongly agree
I wonder how the Great White’s quest to become a mega shark will be impacted by the fact that Orcas have developed a taste for their livers
"Grandpa? Is that you?"
- Jaws
Add A few greats .
I giggled
73% of the video is words that sound like Harry Potter spells.
Expelliarmus
Its Latin
More like JK Rowling made all the words in her book sound like Latin lol
Carchardon Carcharias
Carcallocaliis,omg🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for getting the "definitely extinct" stuff out there. Crappy channels like Bright Side have been milking this extinct shark for all it's worth.
Yeeees
I knew not to trust bright side by the voices they use 😂😂😂
10:35 Noted: Don't swim in the ocean 20-30 million years from now.
Lady: megaladons may roam the ocean again
Me: smiles
YesBoy
**Nervous laugh**
We’re gonna die
Dont smile if it were to exist again only the military would be safe to roam the ocean
Attila Hajdu doubt it
They'll evolving to grow leg, and roam the land
*chuckles*
we’re in danger
We definitely need an episode on Livyatan Melvilli
That Leviathan whale is going to haunt my nightmares. Thank you.
I find it quite fascinating.
I imagine the shock you when discover that they sleep in a vertical position and can kill a human being just with the sound they make haha
It actually evolved in the Miocene and went extinct before the shark did. It was NOT a newly evolved competitor for the shark as the video wrongly claims, it was a competitor the shark was able to handle and ended up outlasting.
Yeah, it's somehow way more terrifying the the megalodon
@@bkjeong4302 "It was NOT a newly evolved competitor", "it was a competitor". The shark is older, so i guess the problem here is not the "newly part". Regardless, can't we at least say that the whale was a big push back on the shark's success, and maybe, although "lost the race", was a reason for the weakening of the sharks?
Your voice is so pleasant and soft that I can't help but fall asleep.
7.5k dislikes are from megalodons
MJR p
MJR
Or from people who think they aren’t extinct
@@znightowlz6585 that's me
They don't exist tho O.o
megalodon: “i am the inevitable”
nature: *say that one more time?*
Nero Redivivus its late and i should sleep.... now i need to check that info to make sure no spacesharks exist.... thx...
True
She is way too cheerful about the idea of giant sharks returning.
Disagree. The prospect of new and interesting species evolving is exciting. Giant sharks definitely qualify.
honestly giant shars returning would probably be stopped by orcas before they become megalodon size, the meg didn't have to deal with organized social killer whales, just other brutes like lyviaten
@@JonPITBZN I agree it would be exciting. I also think it would be exciting to enter the Earth's atmosphere with a broken heat shield. With that said, I think it would be fascinating to see what comes next, even if it is terrifying, and that is where I think you're coming from.
k R agree.,also apparently megalodon got so big as whales grew, it grew too. Whereas now the whales are "already grown" so I can't see how this shark would evolve. Maybe an orca could keep getting bigger?
Maybe because the idea is pretty exciting. No, they're not gonna eat you, sleep tight tonight and probably stop watching so many Hollywood movies.
Fact checking this video: The largest megalodon tooth available to authors in 2021 was GHC6,which produced size estimates for the shark going from 17.4 to 24.2m. The range had a mean of around 20.3m. But, the authors themselves mention there are many teeth larger than GHC6 around the world, so now you can just imagine Megalodon's size... A lot of people think Megalodon was some made up fantasy like Godzilla or Optimus, but this just shows you what nature can emanate...
Shhhhh
You can't "fact check" a guessing game. GH 6 had a crown of 5.2 inches. There are records of teeth with crowns of 7 inches. A 7 inch crown yields an estimate of up to a 23 meter fish, with a 3-4 meter range of error.