Megalodon not as big as we once thought!

[BorneanTiger]

(08-25-2020, 08:16 PM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(08-25-2020, 01:27 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: Neither did I say that Megalodon was a great white (or even a close relative for that matter), nor that it necessarily hunted Livyatan melvillei or huge sperm whales, and it's not like the GW is the only shark that may socialise (including when hunting):

The fact that you continue associating the white shark with the "megalodon" in your examples suggest that.

Other thing, these congregations of sharks are exceptions to the rule, most of the sharks are solitary or congregate only when a food source is big enough. So there is no evidence of gregary behaviour for C. (o.) megalodon at any point.

No, people use modern examples (like lions) to imagine what prehistoric animals (like Smilodon populator) were like, but that doesn't mean that they are saying that sabretooths were prehistoric versions of lions, or even closely related to modern big cats, so just because I have been using modern sharks (like the great white and hammerhead) to imagine what things were like for Megalodon, that shouldn't be considered to mean any close relationship:

An imagined fight between sabertooths, using the modern example of the lion:

In fact, you've done something similar yourself, using the outline of the modern great white shark to imagine what the prehistoric Megalodon looked like, but that doesn't mean that you were saying that they were closely related!

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