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Published: 2015-06-05 19:27:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 9001; Favourites: 141; Downloads: 100
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Yeah, at the beginning of the shak series i said i wouldnt do megalodon, cuz I already had a good pic of it here in DA i could use for the final size chart. However, i am unpredictable mwahahahahaha and so here we have the final species of the giant shark series, the biggest of em all, the humongous meg itself.Related content
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Love this depiction, especially how stocky it is because it fed on whales. Makes total sense.
I'm not into the oversized Great White, Mako or Porbeagle rendition people give it.
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Megalodon exceed 70 feet, they are not 52 feet.
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They weren't that large. The largest was supposedly 20 meters from a single tooth.
The average was 15-16 meters.
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Thois Doesn't Look Like a Carcharodon Megalodon (Or Carcharocles Megalodon). Instead, Looks Like A Sand Tiger Shark.
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Recent studies, Megalodon was only 52 ft.
We don't even have the actual jaws we only have the teeth. The teeth suggest individuals of 40 and 52 ft. Until we find teeth that are larger and the jaws then palaeontologists can conclude that it was that large or smaller.
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In my opinion, your Megalodon is too chubby and stocky. I you take Great white or Mako for reference, they're not that fat.
But this is an awesome piece ^^
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Well megladon is officially totally unrelated to GW. I mean there still both laminiformes, but still, it would unrealistic to portray megalodon as a bigger carbon copy of GW.
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You do know that i posted this com two years ago right ?
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Doesn't mean no one can reply.
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sorry i was to stupid to realize.
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A comment from the last year pls
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Meg is usually expected to be stockier than GW.
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Some great whites are very stocky.
The individual studied by Wroe et al. in 2008 was 2.5 m and 240 kg.
Such a proportion would correspond to 89 tonnes in a 18 m Meg.
That's not unrealistic to me.
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A 18m long normal Megalodon would be 60 tonnes, not 89.
Somes Great whites are stocky, but not every great white, its an isolate case.
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That's no isolated case, for the same length white sharks can have vast weight variations.
Using Gottfried weight regression curve, a typical 18 m megalodon would weigh 70 tonnes. But basically anything between 50 and 100 tonnes is possible, based on modern weight variations.
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Have you seen Pimiento & Balk 2015? It contains some very interesting population statistics pertaining to its size.
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Largest apex predator of all time.
Sizes up to 19-20 m are possible as well but 18 m is already big enough.
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The sperm whale's some competition in the size department (maximum sizes, not average sizes). In terms of deadliness and efficiency as well as species survival, however....
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The scars really do increase the badass level of this thing...
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yes, modern great whites, especially the old females often carry a lot of battle scars aith them, so old Megs probably also had a lot of them
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The big boy himself. Suppose to finally be adapting the novel series into film.
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cant wait to see that, a well made meg film, that would be amazing
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That's foreshadowing!
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Is it logical? I mean...
Megalodon has the largest estimate so 18m
but Parahelicoprion isn't 25 or 30m.
Also, the is one way for Parahelicoprion to be that big ...at least long. If its tail is so elongated as on some modern Holocephali or the Frilled shark or the Listracanthus, and its body is still in its same size
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meg megmeg megmegmeg (You get a cookie if you get what i'm paraphrasing XD)
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So you read the news too?
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not sure what you mean, i was referencing the jaws theme...
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Oh I thought you were excited because Warner Bros confirmed that pre-production on a Meg movie is finally beginning.
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really? 
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