How Megalodon possibly looked like

[Apex Titan]

(06-21-2023, 12:05 AM)Spalea Wrote: @Apex Titan

About #43:


After having seen your short video, all I can say is, if that is true, that your geant shark would be the only one apex predator ( during the history of life on Earth) surpassing in size and weight all other marine creatures. And that, it's exceptionnal. When you are evoking the Amur tiger, this felid weights 220-300 kilos and I can name the brown bear, a big male boar, the asiatic bison (wisent ?) as animals sharing its environment and being bigger than it. Yes it's an apex predator, he hunts some preys bigger than itself, thus an hunting error isn't allowed. During a recent past, Pleistocene period, when the human action was so much more weaked than today, the bears were bigger, some cave lions ruled over the Siberia, some wolves, bigger too than the extant ones, plaged in bigger packs. In short, the Amour tiger, being a solitary apex predator, had to be careful.  

If I spoke about T-rex, there were so numerous preys which were bigger than it (big ceratopciens, big duckbilled dinosaurs, sauropods ...). For it too, hunting error wasn't allowed.

But, in the case of megalodon, nothing like it. Apparently, this apex predator crushed the competition ! It's for this reason one, I find it very particular, I would believe in an other predator able to withstand solitarily or in pride against it. Because It's very hard to believe in an absolute mega apex predator (like the human specy nowaday in fact !).

I'm only repeating what the marine predator experts & researchers say about megalodon. According to experts, nothing could have taken on megalodon. It was the undisputed top marine predator of all time, and according to the most recent research (as also shown in the video) the megalodon occupied the absolute highest position in the food-chain, multiple trophic levels higher than any other marine apex predator today. Now, what you personally make of this information, is up to you. At the end of the day, its not like I'm stating my opinion, this is what actual scientific research shows and what the experts say.

I brought up Amur tigers because what the megalodon was doing to other marine predators it co-existed with, reminded me of what Amur tigers do to other predators (i.e. bears and wolves) in Far East Russia. Its a very similar dynamic. But I agree, in the Pleistocene era, the solitary Amur tiger had to be careful of prides of cave lions. Not about wolves though, as wolves naturally always had a very strong fear of tigers and got killed and driven out of tiger territories. The bears were bigger, but so were the tigers. Amur tigers hunted bears in the Pleistocene era as well, this is not just a modern phenomena. Bears have always fallen prey to tigers throughout many millennia.

I said in my previous post that a whole pod of Livyatan Melvillei whales could probably withstand against the solitary megalodon. Reply