@@riot2136 scary be cool to be able to travel back in a time bubble where you cannot interact with history nor alter it and see these creatures up close
Right. Scientist are so annoying with their bs discoveries one year only to change everything the next year while being completely wrong in the first place and just saying oh well. We taught you wrong so lemme teach you again. I hate when they speak so surely about shit then when they are proven wrong its pretty much the Kanye shrugs.🤔😒😂 Wtfe. Nobody knows shit is the answer. Especially when it comes to that big bang shit. That's almost impossible and they still throw out the most definite facts.
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I never stop wondering how not only megalodon but all other prehistoric creatures really looked like. I'm sure they looked so much more amazing than what we think.
Guys, It’s obvious what Megalodon looks like, It looked like a giant shark Edit;) damn, I didn't expect a dumb ass joke to start a full on comment war holy crap!!??
Imagine if Megalodon was just a giant Hammer Head I know this is highly unlikely especially with the disadvantages. It’s just a fun stupid thought. By disadvantages I mean that a Hammer shaped head isn’t great for attacking large body prey. Hammerheads have heads designed for hunting rays and other creatures similar in size and shape. The wide head allows for more electromagnetic receptors(probably got the name wrong, sorry), this allows it to find prey in the sediment. However this isn’t great for slamming ones face into large prey. Hammerheads are efficient predators and are well designed however their body plan doesn’t fit well in hunting large prey. All this comment means is that what if there was ever a big Hammerhead shark that swam the oceans. Don’t dig into it. But then again, what about a massive Goblin Shark? Or Megalodon being having traits from multiple shark species? Who knows? However, I’m now interested in shark jaws and I want to see if Megalodons have jaws similar to other shark species so that could possible show the skull shape. Teeth aren’t helpful in showing what the skull of the animal is other then giving ideas. Take care TH-cam commenters!
Sometimes I wish I had a time machine so I can just go back in time and look at these extinct creatures so I can actually see what they look like and how they behaved instead of constantly wondering. Unfortunately time machines are impossible (for now)
The megalodon had a great White body And Its nose was not pointy It was curved some megalodons were fat that's also why they have a bit larger dorsel fins
I've always loved the concept of a gigantic, terrifying sea-going predator from long ago... it gives me a kind of eerie tingling fear But this here thicc child makes me irrationally happy thank you
Thank you so much for doing this! It has been one of the greatest disappointments of my life to see Shark Week degrade into sensationalism and jump scare material so to have a chance to look forwards to actual informative shark videos again is so very pleasant.
One of things I'll do once I'm in charge of discovery channel is to fix shark week once and for all for I will become the death of shark's week current self and the bringer of its former true and rightful self.
I'm 90% sure they all bought the same Great White model off of some 3D assets store. Seriously, why does everyone in charge of those just assume that an animal can like... What, at least double in length and maintain the same proportions? Phylogenetics and niche aside it would've been square-cubed hard and the body would need to change dramatically to compensate.
I love the Whale shark look for the Meg, definitely incredibly intimidating and makes sense given it’s size. I would look at all large fish and Whales and see if you can find more examples of convergent evolution between them all. It might help paint what Megalodon looked like. I would also love to see a sketch of the Meg with a more Sand Tiger shark body, could be really interesting.
I agree. I think the depiction at 7:09 looks plausible in combining the sand shark back, whale shark shape, with a short broad snout. However the whale shark does not need short term speed as much, so that might change the tail to something shorter and maybe smaller for a faster easier cycles?
@Pangolin I dont think we even have actual jaws. Every mega jaw youve seen is just as speculative as the full life reconstructions. Which is born out by the extreme variety in the look of mega jaws in museum displays.
There is already a study showing that the scales of the megalodon were from slow swimmers. So hunting whales is almost ruled out, the tooth could be a scavenging act
Yeah, imagine a world where the Pacu was extinct and we're only finding its teeth. We'd have no idea what it would look like. We assume the Megalodon looks like other sharks because their teeth have a resemblance to modern day sharks. "Welp, looks like human teeth, but only found in water. Lost civilization washed away? Mermaids?"
Feathered velociraptors werent real, dont believe that under developed theory crap, fossilized skin PROVES that dinosaurs were in fact scaled not feathered (it doesn’t make sense for them to be feathered anyway considering feathers didn’t evolve until very late into the dinosaurs rule, just after the extinction actually)
@@fishfossils8858 Quill knobs on V-raptor's arms suggest it had long feathers on its body. Zhenyuanlong and Microraptor, who are on the same family tree, also have (albeit much more direct) feathers
@@londoncintron680 actually I'm talking about multiple types, flesh of protoceratops, Tyrannosaurus, Dienonychus (part of the raptor family). Also again evidence proves feathers had not yet evolved, hell fur as we know it today hadn't even seen its evolution yet. Simply it was a bogus theory put forward by a paleontologist who helped with Jurrasic park who thought he found quilling holes on a raptor species and then jurrasic park made his theory popular and as with all other bogus science it took off as a "fact", same as Tartigrades being able to change their DNA, and lemus ju.ping off cliff sides, sorry I don't mean to be aggressive but fake science makes me very angry
Burian is my all time favorite paleoartist. It is not just his depictions of animals; it is the utterly realistic habitats he puts them in. As good as a real time machine.
There always seems to be a possibility missed on this one. Some of the largest extant predatory sharks are deep sea feeders (young Greatwhites, Sleepers, Greenland Sharks), so maybe Megalodon was a Sleeper/Greenland looking animal. I know its way less romantic to view it as an absolutely enormous, super slow moving potato shark, but its energy efficient (so you can get really big) and whale-fall type events would have been abundant (shit was just bigger and there were a lot of whales). Would have been an absolute nightmare to look at though, given how creepy and corpse-like sleepers and Greenland sharks are.
@@theamphibinator the problem is there are tooth stuck in a bone of a whale which mean it cant be like a sleeper or greenland shark because they are slow and have week biteforce
I've no idea how someone can not like this video, the sheer amount of work that has been put into this vid alone is worth a freaking like. Show some respect. I honestly would like know what exactly those "dislike clickers" were thinking and not liking. Some details and arguments...
If anything, the fossilized remains of megalodon make the body look considerably larger from the pectoral fins forward. This might mean that much of the shark's size and weight was at the front of the body. That may mean that it had a significantly larger skull. A couple thoughts, Color scheme: megalodon's teeth morphology is similar to White Sharks because its prey are similar -- both hunt large marine mammals, and it has been learned that White Sharks actually consume large amounts of meat from whale carcasses. This might indicate that megalodon had other similar morphology, such as its skin color being more similar to a White Shark than, say, a Mako Shark. Similarly, White Sharks hunt during the day and their color scheme and vision (White Sharks can see color) are adapted for hunting at day. Since megalodon's hunting behavior in the fossil record indicates it was a similar ambush predator, it may have hunted at the same time of day, and had similar orientation of its eyes -- at least similarly binocular vision as Carcharadon and Isurus. Skull Shape: megalodon teeth are shaped slightly differently than Carcharadon (see Facts in Motion: th-cam.com/video/xgY-fVSPIbc/w-d-xo.html). Functionally, they are designed to bite large pieces of flesh off of prey, which is common in some legendary land predators. The idea that megalodon had a larger and wider skull to aid its lethal dental assault is supported by the fossil records of several land predators, including dinosaurs that hunted migratory megafauna. This might mean that the nose of megalodon, instead of pushed in, is actually stretched outward. Some other Mackerel Sharks have proportionately smaller noses than Carcharadon -- Porbeagles, Salmon Sharks and Thresher Sharks. As a starting point for paleo artists, those sharks may better indicate the shape of megalodon's skull, but more wide and broad.
We also have to remember that the animals from this time also had protections of their own in the form of bony plates and thick hide, it's very likely that this creature relied on crushing power as much as it's ability to tear off chunks.
I always like to imagine a tiny ass shark with a GIANT set of jaws. Imagine swimming in the ocean and seeing a set of jaws with some fins and a small tail swimming towards you lmao
"Extreme" is extreme. You can't have more extreme or less extreme, or a bit extreme, or very extreme, etc. It is always 100%. I wish this type of phrase would go extinct. It is bad enough we also have "more complete" and "less complete," and "more perfect" and "less perfect." What's next? "More infinite and less infinite?"
A big question is what sort of speed would Megalodon have needed to catch its prey and what its hunting strategies were like. If it was primarily an ambush predator which strikes from below, as the Great White often does, then its body would need to be a design that could pull off short bursts of speed. This would mean a very powerful tail along with a relatively streamlined body. Convergent evolution has caused reptiles, mammals, and sharks to develop roughly the same body plan independently of each other with Ichthyosaur and dolphins/orcas. I can't imagine a large surface-feeding carnivore like Megalodon would have a body-plan which is very different from that. The head could be a very different shape, but I think the meg's body had to have been shaped more like the Great White or Orca for the creature to catch its prey. The sorts of body-plans used by large deep-sea sharks like the Greenland Shark wouldn't work for a massive shark that hunts large whales on the ocean surface.
There is already a study showing that the scales of the megalodon were from slow swimmers. So hunting whales is almost ruled out, the tooth could be a scavenging act
many years ago, I recall a Canadian shark researcher, the late Rick A. Martin make the opinion that Megs may have looked more like a sand tiger or even a nurse shark in 'body shape' than a great white. My reaction was a bit of a 'say what?!'
I suppose an important question would be, did it have to move fast. Were the marine animals it was hunting fast? Killer Whales are not as fast as dolphins, but they have more endurance and are therefore able to slowly wear down the dolphins. Killer Whales are also bulky and have big fins
The great white shark is quite specialized animal, adapted for hunting fast moving mammals with a specific hunting method, so its unlikely megalodon would have been a scaled up version
Going off of that note on cartilage, what if there was a type of animal that was extremely widespread and common up until a couple million years ago, but their existence eludes us due to being comprised entirely out of cartilage/non-bony material? I know it’s pretty unlikely, since chances are they’d leave _some_ sort of imprints behind, but it’s a thought I had.
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Fascinating we're alive in a time where topics like this can be discussed with such detail and evidence. Imagine what we will be talking about in 200 more years?
The white is the biggest shark we have that hunts the biggest prey. It "generally" attacks with ambush tactics in deeper waters using speed and stealth. The Meg obviously hunted big prey as well so like the white it would probably use these tactics too. The thumbnail looks like an animal that. Probably could produce big burst of speed but not like what we would expect from a large shark like a white. Counter argument being this animal hunted slower whales. However not ever meg was 50 plus feet long. I doubt adolescence hunted full grown whales. Being smaller slow moving predator sharks probably wouldn't work well. I think the white shark look holds up.
Even the most advanced submarines are still limited to a set depth. Megladons were shallow water hunters, and would be crushed like an eggshell in the Mariana Trench.
EXACTLY. It seriously annoys me when people say WhAt If It LiVeS iN dEeP sEa IT LITERALLY CANNOT. Then they say what if evolved to survive it, THEN ITS NOT A MEG ANYMORE
Congrats on 100k subs! I was going to bring up the zurich sauriermuseum’s specimen but I’m glad to see you addressed that at the end. Seems like we still don’t have an update after a year, unfortunately. I’m quite fond of the whale shark interpretation where I find it easiest to imagine the animal as it existed in real life.
Thanks for this. Depicting Megalodon as merely a scaled up Great White is simplistic and as outdated as an upright T-Rex dragging its tail on the ground and lacking any feathering. We can't be sure what it looked like but that just makes the paleontology art more interesting and we're still able to rule some things out (such as the scaled up Great White), your video explaining how and why. Hopefully next year you'll have an update based on that new fossil!
Adult t Rex’s don’t have feathers, that’s a large miss conception , only the chicks had it in their young ages and then lost it while growing bigger. The biggest featherd theropod was the yutyrannus who was like 7 m
2:01 I kinda believe that is how the Meg looked, however I like to think that it developed like a Zebra Shark does, being born with beautiful solid stripes, and as it matures this stripes blotch out to become speckled dots, it just looks BADASS.🦈🦈🦈🦈
Even if I had a really good understanding of how a shark's body is adapted for the way it hunts, I still don't think I could get the white shark image of Megalodon out of my head. Not because I don't want to, but because I can't think of anything else. Something about the trunk of that cigar looking interpretation looks off to me.
My vote is for the one at 07:10. Sand Tiger Shark body for better hydrodynamics for its large size, wider, flatter face for those massive jaws we find, and whale shark fins for less drag, and no ridiculously bulky body that needs to be kept fed.
@@sidhanthmishra8488 the average size of meg is 34ft 10 Meters but it can reach up to 40 - 52 - 59ft which is 18 meters, the teeth can reach up to 7 inches 18cm and had a jaw from 1 - 3 meters. But in the movie it was 75 feet because like every shark movie needs a shark bigger than its normal or max size, which makes it more scarier like *JAWS* but also more unrealistic
@@tobiasb9396 The first Meg they showed was pretty realistic. 75 ft is stretching it but based on calculations 70 ft was definitely feasible. But thats it. The second Meg was BS because it was well over 90 ft which we know has not been found or proven.
Congrats for 100 k subs! I have some propositions for next shark week. How people in the past view sharks? Hybodonts Animal of the week- Zebra shark Good luck with future films!!!
7:45 If we're going by a reconstruction like this for Megalodon just by heavily debated theories and assumptions. Then I am disappointed by Paleontologists and their workmanship.
Dude, if you don't have strong evidence, you can just go by assumptions and debate them. If that disappoints you, you had unrealistic expectations in the first place.
@@climbscience4813 It's not about whether unrealistic expectations. *It is about unrealistic assumptions that pave this burden for prehistoric animals; based on Paleontologists having an enormous ego nowadays.*
@@TheMightyN So, basically you're saying that you disagree with the assumptions made. Fair enough. I still don't see what your objective criticism of said assumptions would be, to me they sound reasonable.
@@climbscience4813 As I've stated Paleontologist tend to have big egos. For reasons being; why would a predatory cruise shark like Megalodon need to have a body type similar to Whale or Basking Sharks when its paleoecology showed it hunted not only whales, but primitive, dolphin, walrus and seal preys too; it isn't a reasonable design for Megalodon. Instead of taking the time to analyze first Paleontologist, nowadays, quickly assume and publish their work leading to controversy based on poor evidence. If anything, seeing the close relations of these separate families, it be between both the Mako and Great White or the Lemon and Salmon Shark the two former or latter specime being convergent evolutions. The way how things are being operated Paleontology is losing its understanding of the natural world. If paleoart and paleontologists over speculate on newer theories relegating on prehistoric animals without the proper evidence or careful thinking, etc. How can Paleontology combat that when its own professionals are collapsing the foundation it took it get? When it comes to Paleontology, when looking at the fossils and sculpting a restorational image; both logic, thorough studying in both this field and in zoology, and mild creativity are the keys ingredients. You spend too much time on one of those factors then you end up with a fully coated Tyrannosaurus again.
@@TheMightyN Okay, I see where you're coming from and I can agree with what you're saying. It's all about visibility in science nowadays, not only in paleontology, but in most scientific fields. So if something is contradicting existing theories and has at least a weak justification, people will try to get it published, irrespectively of its actual scientific value. It's quite sad actually.
Me: *Drawing a shark.
Passerby: That doesn't really look like a shark.
Me: It's a speculative interpretation of Megalodon.
YES
Nice comeback, then you can tell them to fuck off
@@solidified-spinosaurus jesus
@@kingcookie9777 was alive
@@aydankhaliq2967 correction: didn't exist
Given the time period, it most likely had a Beatles haircut...
I cried haha I love The Beatles
Why are the comments so funny lmaoo
Pls 💀💀💀☮️
Awesome
C'mon, to be one of Lucy's contemporaries, it'd have had to have lived in Australopithecus times.
7:34 Megalodon then: "I am a giant great white shark."
Megalodon now: "I am a giant pill."
*Im blimp*
XD
Mom can we have Megalodon?
We have Megalodon at home.
Megalodon at home:
Hindenburg be like
In all seriousness, I really hope megalodon did not look like that. A bulky, or whale shark body plan would be okay, just not this oversized pill.
What if the Megalodon was all mouth and actually a lot smaller in length than estimated
Matthew Doyle like a gulper eel
Would've been discovered already, the biggest of them were roughly 70 ft at the most
Wezz Simple I thought their max size was 60ft! It’s 70ft? That’s crazy.
@@riot2136 scary be cool to be able to travel back in a time bubble where you cannot interact with history nor alter it and see these creatures up close
That would be even more scary
Megalodon could have had super saiyan 3 hair and no one would know
It is a super saiyan shark
Ultra Instinct Megalodon would destroy us all
@@walmartpimp2 imaging those LEGS
Right. Scientist are so annoying with their bs discoveries one year only to change everything the next year while being completely wrong in the first place and just saying oh well. We taught you wrong so lemme teach you again. I hate when they speak so surely about shit then when they are proven wrong its pretty much the Kanye shrugs.🤔😒😂 Wtfe. Nobody knows shit is the answer. Especially when it comes to that big bang shit. That's almost impossible and they still throw out the most definite facts.
Maybe they can talk also, who knows
movies: big scary great white
reality, probably: _c h o n k y b o i s_
You mean bulky girls
Big chungus
It's look like a bull shark
@@tmb7207 the reason u said girls is because female Meg is bigger right? If that’s the case u are right it’s a chunky girl
@@Koremel1 SHE GOT
*C H U N K*
“Carcharodon Megalodon”
Ah, yes, the classic “Mega-toothed shark-tooth”
Carcharodon means “sharp tooth” or “jagged tooth”.
The sharp toothed shark tooth
Well carcharodon means "Sharp tooth" and megalodon means "big tooth" meaning its name would translate to "Sharp tooth big tooth"
@@hero-scout9397 lmao what are these taxonomists smoking
@@damanisouza859
Megalodon tooth blunt
I'd get really depressed if I got eaten by a shark that looked like an overgroen salmon
overgrown
@@dondragmer2412 ovregrown
overgoern
Orveneogr
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Doesn't _Charcharodon charcharias_ basically translate to shark-toothed shark?
Yup
Cracked Emerald well “ charcaros” also means Sharp
Sharky Mcsharkface
Like goku ssgss?
Shaped like itself.
7:45 - *THICC MEGALODON!*
Our dreams are now complete, and we sleep with peace
Oh lawd he comin.
Thiccer than a snicker
Ha ha ha ha ha,'Funny'......Yeet
THICC?? What Is that?
@@sixbases6793 welcome to the internet!
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2:23 that prehistoric shark looks incredibly sad.
Aw.
;(
Thats because he knows that some smol pp bois keep eating its decendants
Aww i feel bad now
so sad :(
I'm certain it looked like a shark
Nah I’d say it looked like a fighter jet
@@bencaffrey5879 I'd argue it looks like an attack helicopter
@@kwamemwangs2173 probably like a ac 130 gun plane
I'm certain ur right lol
Ben Caffrey tbf fighter jets do kinda look like sharks
I never stop wondering how not only megalodon but all other prehistoric creatures really looked like. I'm sure they looked so much more amazing than what we think.
Yes, as we have been finding out with many dinosaurs and the early birdlike and true ancestral birds.
Imagine how beautiful they were
@@dondragmer2412 they could have been so colourful imagine how beautiful!!
I think they would probably look disappointing if they looked more like birds. The idea of giant lizard like animals looks cooler IMO
@@T10-i5s Yeah but science wasn't meant to be cooler, it was meant to be correct. They weren't lizards, they were their own thing.
Im still holding on to my theory about a small fish with a massive tooth at the end of his tail
This needs more likes.
Imagine lol i might be bigger than my great grandfather
@@wspcheeky1423 I’m your first Suber
This so called tooth is clearly a calcified dorsal fin the two foot long shark would use to open the belly's of sea creatures like a can opener.
I...wow. entirely genius.
That Megalodon gets bullied by the other sharks at the gym
That one guy who was bullied in high school and got popular in the future
I am pretty sure the Megalodon was not fat but actually very muscular, so it was basically the Arnold Swarzenegarr of the class
Yes that's why he ate all of them
@@juanjoyaborja.3054 Nah just full on strongman: so much muscle that it just looked fat.
Sjoerd Boogert Yeah.
That's not a shark
That's a blimp
Haemi Joe 40,000 lb bite force murder blimp
True
Blimp-alodon?
Or
Megalo-Blimp?
@@twerkingporo4026 Ocean Murder Blimp vs. River Murder Log, who would win in a battle.
That's it. I'm calling the Meg the Wet Murder Blimp now.
“I’m trying to hunt around- but I’m dummy thicc and my tail keeps alerting the whales”
Underrated
We’re gonna need a bigger treadmill.
Hahaha hahaha hahaha 😂
Carcharodon Sharkus Plumpus
Sharkus megadus plumpus teethus gigantus
This one wins
I like classic references
2:05 I just love that great white with a big friendly smile 😄
Mordecai Eagle
Orca:*eats it*
@@SSADO- shhh dont ruin the moment
@@keo21c
:)
The great white shark with the great white smile
And ready to give a big kiss
Rename the Meg: “Chunkalodon Megachonkdon”
holy shit dude, this comment has me dying lol
😂😂😂
Big Chungus
Anyone else annoyed at the idea of undescribed specimens lurking in private collections?
Imagine someone having an item, that opens doors for countless scientific mysteries, lying in their basement collecting dust...
Yea its really sad :/
@@madsschorjlnerjrgensen2217 it's a free world out there, finders keepers
Yes, but apparently its communism to think so. My opinion is, dig up their dead grandma and claim its yours.
J P lol
Just imagine...
*HAMMERHEAD MEGALODON*
Who Needs Weapons I Have A Snake what if megalodon was just dodo with fins?
@@malachitecookie5101 too powerful
Swimming satellite dish
They're telepathic....
That would low-key look like a Kaiju
I have a theory that it looked like a large fish
Omg killer goldfish
@@simonbolivar578 killer blob fish
@guynamedJimDoesSomethingIdk killer shrimp
OMG killer sunfish
Idk that seems pretty far fetched to me
Guys,
It’s obvious what Megalodon looks like,
It looked like a giant shark
Edit;) damn, I didn't expect a dumb ass joke to start a full on comment war holy crap!!??
Thanks tips!
You mean like a shark, but giant?
A. Ekegård yes,
Like a big Shark
Hmm yes, the floor is made of floor!
I always thought megalodon looked like a huge shark, not a giant shark
Imagine if Megalodon was just a giant Hammer Head
I know this is highly unlikely especially with the disadvantages. It’s just a fun stupid thought. By disadvantages I mean that a Hammer shaped head isn’t great for attacking large body prey. Hammerheads have heads designed for hunting rays and other creatures similar in size and shape. The wide head allows for more electromagnetic receptors(probably got the name wrong, sorry), this allows it to find prey in the sediment. However this isn’t great for slamming ones face into large prey. Hammerheads are efficient predators and are well designed however their body plan doesn’t fit well in hunting large prey. All this comment means is that what if there was ever a big Hammerhead shark that swam the oceans. Don’t dig into it. But then again, what about a massive Goblin Shark? Or Megalodon being having traits from multiple shark species? Who knows? However, I’m now interested in shark jaws and I want to see if Megalodons have jaws similar to other shark species so that could possible show the skull shape. Teeth aren’t helpful in showing what the skull of the animal is other then giving ideas. Take care TH-cam commenters!
I shit you not I thought that a minute ago.
and now my nightmares are complete
The Widest of Boys.
Bryce’s YT Account extremely unlikely
Unlikely enough to be just plain wrong
@@EVOLUTIONINCARNATE he said Imagine you nerd
Sometimes I wish I had a time machine so I can just go back in time and look at these extinct creatures so I can actually see what they look like and how they behaved instead of constantly wondering. Unfortunately time machines are impossible (for now)
fearodactyl unless the time machine was invented before the time period you want to travel to, you’ll be out of luck
I wouldn't want to go back to that era it would be so Dangerous without Weapons and Maybe a Tank or Sub to protect yourself from Prehistoric Predators
If time machines were possible they would've existed already.
@@shreyanshmohanty4967 no you just need a flux capacitor and Marty McFly and Doc Brown
We'd create a time paradox or smth wouldn't we?
Whether megalodon was sharp snout or fat snout, we can all agree, that it was *thicc*
The megalodon had a great White body And Its nose was not pointy It was curved some megalodons were fat that's also why they have a bit larger dorsel fins
@@musali610 you wouldn't know no one would so dont even
@@musali610 Were you alive millions of years ago to know that?
My megalodon reconstruction looked
Bulky and long
Shorter snout
And larger fins
Dorsal fin is relatively small
And a huge tail
I've always loved the concept of a gigantic, terrifying sea-going predator from long ago... it gives me a kind of eerie tingling fear
But this here thicc child makes me irrationally happy thank you
The Chonky shark makes me tingle but not from fear
@@xvor_tex8577 Chunky shark that size about to swallow you will definitely make you tingle with fear, and maybe pollute the water.
@@dondragmer2412 but the T H I C C Cness of the shark is gonna make my nether regions tingle
@@xvor_tex8577 that escalated quickly
@@xvor_tex8577 nah the chonky look low key is more terrifying than the other one
Popular idea is it's a giant great white.
Science: "It's a big chonk of a shark."
Thank you so much for doing this!
It has been one of the greatest disappointments of my life to see Shark Week degrade into sensationalism and jump scare material so to have a chance to look forwards to actual informative shark videos again is so very pleasant.
I know right? I want to learn more about Sharks, not watch Shaq do stupid reality TV stuff with Black tips. smh
Exactly!
One of things I'll do once I'm in charge of discovery channel is to fix shark week once and for all for I will become the death of shark's week current self and the bringer of its former true and rightful self.
@@wildgirl6557 no you should run from presidency i would vote for you cause you want to educate people about sharks lol
I'm 90% sure they all bought the same Great White model off of some 3D assets store. Seriously, why does everyone in charge of those just assume that an animal can like... What, at least double in length and maintain the same proportions? Phylogenetics and niche aside it would've been square-cubed hard and the body would need to change dramatically to compensate.
we love a chonky prehistoric boi
Love it.
Lol
Interesting way to put it
Yeah chunkie
Dunkleosteus
Megalodon
Livyatan
Titanichthys
Leedsicthys
Shonisaurus
Shastasaurus
-There's my list of a chonky prehistoric boi
I love the Whale shark look for the Meg, definitely incredibly intimidating and makes sense given it’s size. I would look at all large fish and Whales and see if you can find more examples of convergent evolution between them all. It might help paint what Megalodon looked like.
I would also love to see a sketch of the Meg with a more Sand Tiger shark body, could be really interesting.
I agree. I think the depiction at 7:09 looks plausible in combining the sand shark back, whale shark shape, with a short broad snout. However the whale shark does not need short term speed as much, so that might change the tail to something shorter and maybe smaller for a faster easier cycles?
Both reconstructions are impossible. Also, its head was as pointy as a Great White's, we have a skull and snout now.
Megalodon segregation :
big boi
Bulk boi
Thicc boi
EXTRA THICC BOI
A W L A W D H E C O M I N
Sadly shark fossils beyond teeth are very difficult to come by, we may never know how this shark really looked like.
@@quark5245 fat decomposes super quickly
@Pangolin I dont think we even have actual jaws. Every mega jaw youve seen is just as speculative as the full life reconstructions. Which is born out by the extreme variety in the look of mega jaws in museum displays.
There is already a study showing that the scales of the megalodon were from slow swimmers. So hunting whales is almost ruled out, the tooth could be a scavenging act
There’s a doco called The Meg you should see.
It'll be awesome and horrifying at the same time if it looks even more monstrous than we currently think.
4:53-that shark got a camels back
Nunya Business this comment made me run right into an ad
Piranha: Hay, Pacu, we look alike, so our teeth must look alike, right?
Pacu: No, my teeth look like human teeth...
THIS!
Yeah, imagine a world where the Pacu was extinct and we're only finding its teeth. We'd have no idea what it would look like. We assume the Megalodon looks like other sharks because their teeth have a resemblance to modern day sharks.
"Welp, looks like human teeth, but only found in water. Lost civilization washed away? Mermaids?"
Lol. Imagine future ichtyologists finding Pacu teeth and thinking it belonged to some underwater primate.
You guys know there is ways to differenciate fish teeth who resemble primate teeth to a real primate teeth right?
The size of that lad!
More like Megalo-CHONK!
Absolute unit.
Don't really care for pun humor but that was glorious.
No
Dumb as fuck
It could've looked like a Honda civic but we will never know
Mason Abbott nice one bro!
tiffany branton r/woosh
Lmaoo
tiffany branton dim witted comment rally by this dumb ass
*mhm kill a whale with my 2001 honda civic I must*
I’ve been able to enjoy feathered Velociraptor and herbivorous Gastornis more than their older depictions, so I’m a-okay with this toothy blimp.
Feathered velociraptors werent real, dont believe that under developed theory crap, fossilized skin PROVES that dinosaurs were in fact scaled not feathered (it doesn’t make sense for them to be feathered anyway considering feathers didn’t evolve until very late into the dinosaurs rule, just after the extinction actually)
@@fishfossils8858 Quill knobs on V-raptor's arms suggest it had long feathers on its body. Zhenyuanlong and Microraptor, who are on the same family tree, also have (albeit much more direct) feathers
@@fishfossils8858 As for the scales, you are either thinking of T.rex or Carnotaurus. I don't mean to sound harsh, I just want to clear things up
@@londoncintron680 actually I'm talking about multiple types, flesh of protoceratops, Tyrannosaurus, Dienonychus (part of the raptor family). Also again evidence proves feathers had not yet evolved, hell fur as we know it today hadn't even seen its evolution yet. Simply it was a bogus theory put forward by a paleontologist who helped with Jurrasic park who thought he found quilling holes on a raptor species and then jurrasic park made his theory popular and as with all other bogus science it took off as a "fact", same as Tartigrades being able to change their DNA, and lemus ju.ping off cliff sides, sorry I don't mean to be aggressive but fake science makes me very angry
@@fishfossils8858 Oh it's okay, though I do suggest you read about Kulindadromeus, and maybe also Caudipteryx. They are very interesting creatures.
Plot twist: Megalodon wasn't a shark and was instead a marine dinosaur with a bald head, yellow body, and red limbs
THANK YOU FOR CREDITING ZDENĚK BURIAN!!! amazing artist from my country, his paintings are my childhood! this really made my day :)
jackoblllllllll if it wasn’t for him, lots of entertainment would had never existed
Burian is my all time favorite paleoartist. It is not just his depictions of animals; it is the utterly realistic habitats he puts them in. As good as a real time machine.
Hi
There always seems to be a possibility missed on this one. Some of the largest extant predatory sharks are deep sea feeders (young Greatwhites, Sleepers, Greenland Sharks), so maybe Megalodon was a Sleeper/Greenland looking animal.
I know its way less romantic to view it as an absolutely enormous, super slow moving potato shark, but its energy efficient (so you can get really big) and whale-fall type events would have been abundant (shit was just bigger and there were a lot of whales). Would have been an absolute nightmare to look at though, given how creepy and corpse-like sleepers and Greenland sharks are.
I like this idea! Big sleeper boi
@@theamphibinator Massive potato friend.
But that is impossible because megalodon hunt whale
Adhitya Wardhana it could have scavenged whale carcasses off the sea floor like modern sleeper sharks do
@@theamphibinator the problem is there are tooth stuck in a bone of a whale which mean it cant be like a sleeper or greenland shark because they are slow and have week biteforce
I've no idea how someone can not like this video, the sheer amount of work that has been put into this vid alone is worth a freaking like. Show some respect.
I honestly would like know what exactly those "dislike clickers" were thinking and not liking. Some details and arguments...
Congrats on 100k you have tought many people on many things
Jay Pelletier someone’s mad
@@jaypelletier3783 I'm sure he's tought somebody something sometime.
Jay Pelletier he’s taught me many things, there you go.
me: hey mom can we have megalodon?
mom: no we have megalodon at home.
megalodon at home: 7:21
SCP 173
(•_•) I see you
Lool
...Go back to your Containment Chamber.
It doesn't look that bad to me.
Sharks are one more different than the other, I don’t think megalodon would be a giant great white
If anything, the fossilized remains of megalodon make the body look considerably larger from the pectoral fins forward. This might mean that much of the shark's size and weight was at the front of the body. That may mean that it had a significantly larger skull. A couple thoughts,
Color scheme: megalodon's teeth morphology is similar to White Sharks because its prey are similar -- both hunt large marine mammals, and it has been learned that White Sharks actually consume large amounts of meat from whale carcasses. This might indicate that megalodon had other similar morphology, such as its skin color being more similar to a White Shark than, say, a Mako Shark. Similarly, White Sharks hunt during the day and their color scheme and vision (White Sharks can see color) are adapted for hunting at day. Since megalodon's hunting behavior in the fossil record indicates it was a similar ambush predator, it may have hunted at the same time of day, and had similar orientation of its eyes -- at least similarly binocular vision as Carcharadon and Isurus.
Skull Shape: megalodon teeth are shaped slightly differently than Carcharadon (see Facts in Motion: th-cam.com/video/xgY-fVSPIbc/w-d-xo.html). Functionally, they are designed to bite large pieces of flesh off of prey, which is common in some legendary land predators. The idea that megalodon had a larger and wider skull to aid its lethal dental assault is supported by the fossil records of several land predators, including dinosaurs that hunted migratory megafauna. This might mean that the nose of megalodon, instead of pushed in, is actually stretched outward. Some other Mackerel Sharks have proportionately smaller noses than Carcharadon -- Porbeagles, Salmon Sharks and Thresher Sharks. As a starting point for paleo artists, those sharks may better indicate the shape of megalodon's skull, but more wide and broad.
Yeah, i figured super sized salmon sharks or thrashers would be on point
We also have to remember that the animals from this time also had protections of their own in the form of bony plates and thick hide, it's very likely that this creature relied on crushing power as much as it's ability to tear off chunks.
The image at 10:00 is similar to what you described.
Been looking forward to this one. And yes I had seen that interpretation you used in the thumbnail. All hail megalochonk!
A hefty chonker
The new Moto Moto.
@@drsharkboy6568 Look out! I think Mego Mego likes you
@@venumbra1177 **chonky megalothicc emerges from water and flexes af**
if Megalodon look like that I wouldn't call it Megalodon but Chonkolodon
Congrats on 100K!
Please do Shark Week again next year
I always like to imagine a tiny ass shark with a GIANT set of jaws. Imagine swimming in the ocean and seeing a set of jaws with some fins and a small tail swimming towards you lmao
Thats what i always thought while looking at my Megalodon teeth!
The speculative version looks like it'd regularly sit in front of a fireplace in a velvet dressinggown, holding a cigar and reflecting on it's past
Damn boi, he *THICC*
7:20 my favorite picture of the Megalodon even though it's a bit extreme.
"Extreme" is extreme. You can't have more extreme or less extreme, or a bit extreme, or very extreme, etc. It is always 100%. I wish this type of phrase would go extinct. It is bad enough we also have "more complete" and "less complete," and "more perfect" and "less perfect." What's next? "More infinite and less infinite?"
@@dondragmer2412 I agree. Radical would have been a better word. It's the reason I love it so much.
@@dondragmer2412 more and less infinities do exist in mathematic concepts though. infinity squared is more infinite then just infinity.
Also, extremity exists on a scale, so the original poster was correct in using it that way.
@@dondragmer2412 if you need 2 kg of fish, but you buy 4 kg , that's a bit extreme, if you need 2kg but you buy 100kg, that's really extreme
No matter what it looked like, it must have been one hell of a creature to behold!
A big question is what sort of speed would Megalodon have needed to catch its prey and what its hunting strategies were like. If it was primarily an ambush predator which strikes from below, as the Great White often does, then its body would need to be a design that could pull off short bursts of speed. This would mean a very powerful tail along with a relatively streamlined body. Convergent evolution has caused reptiles, mammals, and sharks to develop roughly the same body plan independently of each other with Ichthyosaur and dolphins/orcas. I can't imagine a large surface-feeding carnivore like Megalodon would have a body-plan which is very different from that. The head could be a very different shape, but I think the meg's body had to have been shaped more like the Great White or Orca for the creature to catch its prey. The sorts of body-plans used by large deep-sea sharks like the Greenland Shark wouldn't work for a massive shark that hunts large whales on the ocean surface.
There is already a study showing that the scales of the megalodon were from slow swimmers. So hunting whales is almost ruled out, the tooth could be a scavenging act
many years ago, I recall a Canadian shark researcher, the late Rick A. Martin make the opinion that Megs may have looked more like a sand tiger or even a nurse shark in 'body shape' than a great white. My reaction was a bit of a 'say what?!'
I suppose an important question would be, did it have to move fast. Were the marine animals it was hunting fast? Killer Whales are not as fast as dolphins, but they have more endurance and are therefore able to slowly wear down the dolphins. Killer Whales are also bulky and have big fins
The great white shark is quite specialized animal, adapted for hunting fast moving mammals with a specific hunting method, so its unlikely megalodon would have been a scaled up version
The art for the shark looks like a great white that's missing a few chromosomes
has an extra one on the 21st pair
Plot-twist: Megaladon looked like a giant rubber duck
My favorite representation of this animal was in The Meg. There were plenty of subtle details that distinguished it from a giant great white.
Impresive design of the shark in that movie
Sadly they click baited with the shark on the cover. Neither shark was close to as big as the meg on the cover was.
@@the_darkborne5440 And I’d say that’s pretty accurate too. The Megalodon’s max size is 58 ft
Going off of that note on cartilage, what if there was a type of animal that was extremely widespread and common up until a couple million years ago, but their existence eludes us due to being comprised entirely out of cartilage/non-bony material?
I know it’s pretty unlikely, since chances are they’d leave _some_ sort of imprints behind, but it’s a thought I had.
I really like the 7:08 concept.
Ah, congratulations on 100k subs! A proud accomplishment in the eternal endeavors of *education* and the power of knowledge.
I really like that dark ambient music in the backround. What's the name of the track?
It's specialised music made by Matt, who composes a lot for the channel - check out his personal one here: th-cam.com/channels/zaaopratnya8zt4CUuojPg.html
Fascinating we're alive in a time where topics like this can be discussed with such detail and evidence. Imagine what we will be talking about in 200 more years?
What evidence, just theories
Congrats on 100k
The white is the biggest shark we have that hunts the biggest prey. It "generally" attacks with ambush tactics in deeper waters using speed and stealth.
The Meg obviously hunted big prey as well so like the white it would probably use these tactics too. The thumbnail looks like an animal that. Probably could produce big burst of speed but not like what we would expect from a large shark like a white.
Counter argument being this animal hunted slower whales. However not ever meg was 50 plus feet long. I doubt adolescence hunted full grown whales. Being smaller slow moving predator sharks probably wouldn't work well.
I think the white shark look holds up.
Well we don't know, thats what makes this fun to look at.
@@chucklesdeclown8819 I won't argue that.
You could call it "greater White shark"
@@brickmotion6637 it's still a appealing animal
Whether a obese greenland shark or cooler great white.
It doesn't matter what it looks like, it would have been terrifying, especially under open water
Only one person sad Meg is extinct...
The Toothfairy
Shit just shot up from 1 to 100 real quick
Plot twist: the Tooth fairy is the one who killed them all due to overfarming
0:04 Game glitched. Please fix.
hehehe
Typhoon cp That’s it’s gills num nut
@@hb3920 this explains it.
9:46 - is that a Cetotherium?
Loved this weeks shark week.
Suggestions for next year: shark in the future.
Like sharks with lasers and stuff.
Dr. Evil already asked for sharks with frickin' laser beams.
😂😂😂
Far cry blood dragon
congragulations! 100k WOOHOO!!
Even the most advanced submarines are still limited to a set depth. Megladons were shallow water hunters, and would be crushed like an eggshell in the Mariana Trench.
EXACTLY. It seriously annoys me when people say WhAt If It LiVeS iN dEeP sEa IT LITERALLY CANNOT. Then they say what if evolved to survive it, THEN ITS NOT A MEG ANYMORE
One things for sure... we’re DEFINITELY going to need a bigger boat!
😜👍
This video was long needed on TH-cam. The "giant white shark" meme is so tired and frustrating. Sorry I missed it when it was new.
Realistically it probably had its own look.Probably had a lot of different features that many sharks have today.
Congrats on 100k subs! I was going to bring up the zurich sauriermuseum’s specimen but I’m glad to see you addressed that at the end. Seems like we still don’t have an update after a year, unfortunately. I’m quite fond of the whale shark interpretation where I find it easiest to imagine the animal as it existed in real life.
Thanks for this. Depicting Megalodon as merely a scaled up Great White is simplistic and as outdated as an upright T-Rex dragging its tail on the ground and lacking any feathering. We can't be sure what it looked like but that just makes the paleontology art more interesting and we're still able to rule some things out (such as the scaled up Great White), your video explaining how and why.
Hopefully next year you'll have an update based on that new fossil!
Adult t Rex’s don’t have feathers, that’s a large miss conception , only the chicks had it in their young ages and then lost it while growing bigger. The biggest featherd theropod was the yutyrannus who was like 7 m
@@matzepizzaheld8541 the misconception is that there is no evidence for adult T-Rexes losing *all* of their feathers. Because there isn't any.
The youngsters likely had fuzzies.
@@Scrinwaipwr you can't have scales with feathers
You had me at 10:43 not gonna lie. I was like noooo this was such a good video!
Congrats on 100k! 👌 u really deserve it!!!
2:01 I kinda believe that is how the Meg looked, however I like to think that it developed like a Zebra Shark does, being born with beautiful solid stripes, and as it matures this stripes blotch out to become speckled dots, it just looks BADASS.🦈🦈🦈🦈
I want to think it looked like the one at 7:19 that looks even cooler than the upscaled great white imo
What if it was just a tiny shark with gigantic teeth? Someine please make a picture of that
It wasnt small if It was It wouldnt stand a chans against liyatan
Even if I had a really good understanding of how a shark's body is adapted for the way it hunts, I still don't think I could get the white shark image of Megalodon out of my head. Not because I don't want to, but because I can't think of anything else. Something about the trunk of that cigar looking interpretation looks off to me.
My vote is for the one at 07:10. Sand Tiger Shark body for better hydrodynamics for its large size, wider, flatter face for those massive jaws we find, and whale shark fins for less drag, and no ridiculously bulky body that needs to be kept fed.
9:32 *ABSOLUTE UNIT*
I strongly support the chonky Megalodon in the thumbnail
It could’ve looked like the friend we made along the way but we'll never know
After 8 months of nothing, here, have my like stranger
We already saw what it looks like. Jason Statham fought it in the Meg.
You joking right?
It was just a movie
It was a pretty accurate depiction. Not sure what it's max length was
@@sidhanthmishra8488 the average size of meg is 34ft 10 Meters but it can reach up to 40 - 52 - 59ft which is 18 meters, the teeth can reach up to 7 inches 18cm and had a jaw from 1 - 3 meters. But in the movie it was 75 feet because like every shark movie needs a shark bigger than its normal or max size, which makes it more scarier like *JAWS* but also more unrealistic
@@tobiasb9396 The first Meg they showed was pretty realistic. 75 ft is stretching it but based on calculations 70 ft was definitely feasible. But thats it. The second Meg was BS because it was well over 90 ft which we know has not been found or proven.
Yet another great one, fellas! Well done!
I’m still wondering what Megalodong looks like.
I don’t want to see what the Megalodong looks like, it would not be safe for work
Mystery solved baby...
*hits blunt*
Yo what if megladons just have oversized teeth on normal sized bodies?
Congrats for 100 k subs!
I have some propositions for next shark week.
How people in the past view sharks?
Hybodonts
Animal of the week- Zebra shark
Good luck with future films!!!
I ronic how most depictions of Megaladon look pretty Cookie Cutter imagine a Flater body
Your videos keep popping up. you've earned another sub. Great content 👍
I don’t wanna picture megalodon any different
then dont
@@lukeskywalker9016 .........okay
7:45 If we're going by a reconstruction like this for Megalodon just by heavily debated theories and assumptions. Then I am disappointed by Paleontologists and their workmanship.
Dude, if you don't have strong evidence, you can just go by assumptions and debate them. If that disappoints you, you had unrealistic expectations in the first place.
@@climbscience4813 It's not about whether unrealistic expectations. *It is about unrealistic assumptions that pave this burden for prehistoric animals; based on Paleontologists having an enormous ego nowadays.*
@@TheMightyN So, basically you're saying that you disagree with the assumptions made. Fair enough. I still don't see what your objective criticism of said assumptions would be, to me they sound reasonable.
@@climbscience4813 As I've stated Paleontologist tend to have big egos. For reasons being; why would a predatory cruise shark like Megalodon need to have a body type similar to Whale or Basking Sharks when its paleoecology showed it hunted not only whales, but primitive, dolphin, walrus and seal preys too; it isn't a reasonable design for Megalodon. Instead of taking the time to analyze first Paleontologist, nowadays, quickly assume and publish their work leading to controversy based on poor evidence. If anything, seeing the close relations of these separate families, it be between both the Mako and Great White or the Lemon and Salmon Shark the two former or latter specime being convergent evolutions.
The way how things are being operated Paleontology is losing its understanding of the natural world. If paleoart and paleontologists over speculate on newer theories relegating on prehistoric animals without the proper evidence or careful thinking, etc. How can Paleontology combat that when its own professionals are collapsing the foundation it took it get?
When it comes to Paleontology, when looking at the fossils and sculpting a restorational image; both logic, thorough studying in both this field and in zoology, and mild creativity are the keys ingredients. You spend too much time on one of those factors then you end up with a fully coated Tyrannosaurus again.
@@TheMightyN Okay, I see where you're coming from and I can agree with what you're saying. It's all about visibility in science nowadays, not only in paleontology, but in most scientific fields. So if something is contradicting existing theories and has at least a weak justification, people will try to get it published, irrespectively of its actual scientific value. It's quite sad actually.