How Megalodon possibly looked like

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(06-18-2022, 10:46 PM)Semyon Wrote: There is no new form to be accepted, those are only paleoartists proposions based on sheer guess like many since years. The only tested current work about meg body plan is the research from Jack Cooper.
https://www.researchgate.net/project/3D-...-Megalodon

Kent in Renz (2002) and in his 2018 chapter has already more or less debunked the bottom feeder sandtiger-like body plan, those fins cannot operate at meg scale.

Poor study, check this: "This model will be created in Blender using a combination of CT scans of an exceptional vertebral column fossil (~150 vertebrae), a skull of a great white shark (Megalodon's most commonly used ecological analogue) & a full body scan of the great white shark."

They still use the white shark as surrogate, so they are running in circles again. By the way, some of those paleoartists were mentored by real paleontologists, so they have their value and at least they're not copying and pasting the same great white shark over and over again.

The sand tiger body plan has not been debunked at all, and why those fins can't operate at meg scale? Specially when we don't know the meg scale! At this moment, estimations run from 10 to 20 meters, very problematic if you ask.

That is the problem with this particular animal and that is why I am bored about it, one month one person publish something and the next month other person debunk it, apparently, and propose other hypotesis and they continue and continue and continue with the same thing. I am not interested in this animal at all. Reply