Megalodon not as big as we once thought!

[AndresVida]

(06-26-2022, 03:02 PM)Semyon Wrote: 20 m is a good benchmark for max sized cold water inhabiting female O. megalodon 

That's all about it, consider the fact that some megalodons could have just had a proportionally slightly larger teeth that just belongs to a megalodon that is the same size about GHC-6 and has no significant size difference rather than a few cm as no animal of any species has the same proprortions of others


I also doubt the cold water / warm water size difference among these sharks since you quoted that "cold water" topic which is probably referred to that recent study claiming that Megalodons inhabiting cold waters grow larger than their warm water counterparts. I mean, sharks are Migratory animals and the cold water Megalodons are just subadult Megalodons that may have migrated upwards while maturing from the south, like they'd go to South to reproduce and then go back towards the north.

I've made a size comparison related to that study showing the max sizes of warm and cold water megalodon females with a max sized livyatan just for scale

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And yes, GHC-6 is an outlier. Any individual of any animal species reaching or surpassing what is considered to be the general max size barrier of that animal species is automatically an outlier.
Leopards that reach or surpass 90 kgs are outliers, just like megalodons that reach or surpass 20 meters in length Reply