Megalodon not as big as we once thought!

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(09-14-2020, 03:25 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: I have discovered that it's not even as simple as that, because for instance, another prehistoric mega-toothed shark that is considered to be a close relative of Megalodon (hence considered to belong to the same genus as Megalodon) is Carochles angustidens / Otodus angustidens, and in 2001, the discovery of what was said to be the best-preserved angustidens specimen to date by two scientists, Michael D. Gottfried and Ewan Fordyce, had been presented by the team as evidence for close morphological ties with the extant great white, and so the team argued that angustidens (along with all other related megatooths, including Megalodon) should have been assigned to Carcharodon, as was done before by Louis Agassiz: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...2.0.CO%3B2

Basically, the issue of which shark is closely or distantly related to the Megalodon and other megatooths is a controversial topic, with different models of evolution giving different answers.

Did you notice that the article is from 2001? That information is now outdated and do not apply to "megalodon" anymore. Current consensus is that "megalodon" is not related at all with the modern white shark and even they tooth are very different, as we can see in your last picture. Reply