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Does Megaladon Still Exist?

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    Posted: 05-Feb-2012 at 12:07
I happened to tune in to a show called "Monster Quest" last week.  The focus of the show was the Sea of Cortez and scientists looking for an unknown specie of shark.  The locals have been seeing an animal that they call the "black devil", average length is 15-30 ft.  Sightings go back a hundred years.  The folks working on this think it may be a hybrid of Megladon.
Meg. was a deep water animal.  There are some who think it could still exist in places like the Marianas Trench, or the Sea of Cortez.  The SOC goes from food rich shallows to a depth of 12,000 ft.
There is a Meg. tooth in existence that has been aged at just a few thousand years.  This would indicate that Meg. was around much later than first thought.  Considering the vastness of the open ocean and the lack of knowledge of it's depths, it's possible that there are, if not Meg. itself, some close relatives hanging around out there.
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As possible convolution residuals all forms are possible.Inside Mariana trench I expect anaerobic advanced
civilization more than Megaladon.Yeap,maybe some of the ancestry of Anderson's will appear also there!Big smile
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  Quote Cryptic Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05-Feb-2012 at 18:24

I dont know.... 

I can see the oceasn concealing some very large sea life.  But we are tallking about a large aggressive predator, not a large but shy aquatic grazer.  I think a Megaladon would have tried to snack on somebody recently and have gotten documented.   


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  Quote PanzerOberst Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Feb-2012 at 11:55
Hello guys. Years ago, I lapped up anything I could find on the internet concerning Meg and seriously entertained the idea that Meg or an evolved version could still exist. But all the 'evidence' presented by believers now are practically the same ones as before. So sadly I am inclined now to believe that they're extinct.
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  Quote Alcebiades Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-Jun-2012 at 12:12
Isn't the Great White a direct descendent of the Megalodon?? 
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  Quote Mountain Man Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28-Aug-2012 at 16:08
When I was in high school, I wrote a sci-fi short story about a surviving Megaladon in an abyssal deep.

Could a Meg survive i the deeps?  If it could, it would eventually adapt to the greater pressure, and probably face death if it came up to snack on an unwary surfer.

OTH, I keep thinking about the "extinct" coelocanth, which is still with us.


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