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In this time one of the most famous and yet mysterious carnivorous fish, the megalodon!

Megalodon is offten interpreted as an oversized version of great white shark which had the totally same colouration like the antagonist of the Jaws movie. Which is (I think) pretty ridiculous, because I have never seen any shark species which had the totally same colouration like another one's. Perhaps there are similarities, but not in a "colour clone" way, as in the case of carcharias and megalodon. And I know, because of its hunting strategy it is possible that like most of the sharks its back was darker and the belly was lighter, but I don't think that means in a ctrl+c ctrl+v way. Even mako shark's colouration doesn't look like the great white's.
And we know now, megalodon was not even the member of the genus "Carcharodon" but the Carcharocles, thanks to its ancestor, the Otodus.

But somehow, this meme/clisché still exists. Even there was no any evidence how its body plan might look like. We have megalodon teeth and for a long time we thought these looked similar to the teeth of carcharias (they are not), and just because of that, "the whole animal looked just like a carcharias"!
Well, I don't agree with this logic, because I think Megalodon is mysterious enough to imagine various versions of it. As myterious as Deinocheirus was for a very long time. We have only its teeth and a few vertebrae.
So, here is my version. This one is totally different what we generally see on internet.
My Megalodon is a pretty long, and slender animal, not as fatty as normally (makes him a bit more agile compared to its size). Its snout is more elongated to have more Lorenzini Ampullae, which allow him to find its victims easier in the vast ocean. It would have been a very necessary feature to a macro-predator with that size. But I'm not an expert of sharks, so...just say'n.
And its colours? Well....not impossibru. Because...life finds a way!

So c'mon people, use a few imagination, because megalodon approves it

Description
In this time one of the most famous and yet mysterious carnivorous fish, the megalodon!

Megalodon is offten interpreted as an oversized version of great white shark which had the totally same colouration like the antagonist of the Jaws movie. Which is (I think) pretty ridiculous, because I have never seen any shark species which had the totally same colouration like another one's. Perhaps there are similarities, but not in a "colour clone" way, as in the case of carcharias and megalodon. And I know, because of its hunting strategy it is possible that like most of the sharks its back was darker and the belly was lighter, but I don't think that means in a ctrl+c ctrl+v way. Even mako shark's colouration doesn't look like the great white's.
And we know now, megalodon was not even the member of the genus "Carcharodon" but the Carcharocles, thanks to its ancestor, the Otodus.

But somehow, this meme/clisché still exists. Even there was no any evidence how its body plan might look like. We have megalodon teeth and for a long time we thought these looked similar to the teeth of carcharias (they are not), and just because of that, "the whole animal looked just like a carcharias"!
Well, I don't agree with this logic, because I think Megalodon is mysterious enough to imagine various versions of it. As myterious as Deinocheirus was for a very long time. We have only its teeth and a few vertebrae.
So, here is my version. This one is totally different what we generally see on internet.
My Megalodon is a pretty long, and slender animal, not as fatty as normally (makes him a bit more agile compared to its size). Its snout is more elongated to have more Lorenzini Ampullae, which allow him to find its victims easier in the vast ocean. It would have been a very necessary feature to a macro-predator with that size. But I'm not an expert of sharks, so...just say'n.
And its colours? Well....not impossibru. Because...life finds a way!

So c'mon people, use a few imagination, because megalodon approves it