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(06-21-2023, 12:05 AM)Spalea Wrote: 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 Roofing Repairs. 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 !).
The Megalodon, an ancient and colossal shark that roamed the oceans from about 23 to 3.6 million years ago, was a formidable predator. Based on fossil evidence and comparisons with modern sharks, the Megalodon likely had a robust, torpedo-shaped body designed for efficient swimming and powerful predatory strikes. It is estimated to have grown up to 60 feet in length, with some reconstructions suggesting it could have been even larger. Its massive jaws, capable of exerting a bite force stronger than any known creature, were lined with rows of serrated teeth up to seven inches long.
