Shark Week 2013- Do yo think megalodon exists?

[MelissaDBrown]

OR....a mermaid is swimming with a megalodon

 

[cantthinkofone]

precisely

 

[Najakeeper]

Feeling stupid is quite healthy if you are over the age of 3 and at one point have believed in the existance mermaids...just saying

 

[The Snark]

I try to feel stupid about something at least once a week. If I don't it usually means I've missed encountering something new. Wish I could feel stupid 84 times a day.

 

[cantthinkofone]

well you dont have to feel stupid to learn. i go and learn and dont always feel stupid

 

[Spepper]

It would definitely be cool of megalodon still existed. (Even though I don't watch Shark Week.) It's not entirely impossible that it doesn't still live in the ocean somewhere. After all... man has only explored 5% of the ocean, which covers 70% of the earth. That is a really, really tiny percent of the big picture.

 

[kellakk]

This is the reason I no longer watch TV. Nothing educational is ever on television anymore. There's only fake things pretending to be real (reality shows anyone?).

 

[Smokehound714]

I'm sticking with carcharocles. Especially considering there's no real data placing it within Carcharodon.

The only real certainty anyone could have is by identifying it as a lamniform shark.


I'm pretty sure makos would actually be the closest living relatives. They did note a finer serration in the teeth, more similar to Isurus than Carcharodon.

 

[The Snark]

well you dont have to feel stupid to learn. i go and learn and dont always feel stupid

The first step to learning something is to admit to yourself you don't know it. Then the ego gets in on it and the next thing you know you got a 3 rings circus banging around in the brain hotel. I prefer the short cut: 'DANG! Hey me! Check that out! Why didn't you have that one going from word go? DUHHHH!!!' Then I remember it, sometimes for two weeks or more!

This is the reason I no longer watch TV. Nothing educational is ever on television anymore. There's only fake things pretending to be real (reality shows anyone?).

Let's do a retake of the wisdom of Frank Zappa here:
I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed 'n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little has changed
I'm the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you

I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I'm the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I'm the slime oozin' out
From your TV set

You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't go for help . . . no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold

That's right, folks . . .
Don't touch that dial

Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin' along on your livin' room floor

 

[Amoeba]

How can you not like Shark Week?

Be Will Wheaton, or anybody else butthurt over some D list mockumentary. That photochop was so bad it was laughable......as it was meant to be.

Megalodon is obviously a real thing since I saw it on TV and this girl at work tells me she finds their teeth in the sand at Venice beach.

 

[Shell]

we still have a small amount of super huge white sharks roaming the oceans and they are the ancestors of megalodon.

I have to try to find the source, but I read an article not long ago that stated that Great Whites are not actual descendants of Megalodon. That our idea of what Megalodon looks like (ie massive great white) is purely that, an idea (since all we have to build off are fossilized teeth). Apparently the Great White is more closely related to the Mako shark than Megalodon. Just found that interesting.

Shark week is a HUGE deal in our house. I have an 8 yr old son who is beyond obsessed with sharks, so we love shark week here.

 

[ShredderEmp]

I'm that 8 year old...but I'm fifteen.

 

[MarkmD]

I have to try to find the source, but I read an article not long ago that stated that Great Whites are not actual descendants of Megalodon. That our idea of what Megalodon looks like (ie massive great white) is purely that, an idea (since all we have to build off are fossilized teeth). Apparently the Great White is more closely related to the Mako shark than Megalodon. Just found that interesting.

Shark week is a HUGE deal in our house. I have an 8 yr old son who is beyond obsessed with sharks, so we love shark week here.

Alright cool, I didn't do any research on it, although I did watch a couple of megalodon documentaries some years back (so cant recall much) lol. Thanks for the info.

 

[ShredderEmp]

I don't understand how Megalodon wasn't the Great White's ancestor because they have almost identical teeth.

 

[freedumbdclxvi]

I don't understand how Megalodon wasn't the Great White's ancestor because they have almost identical teeth.

I hate saying do a google search, but I recommend it in this case. I don't recall all the evidence that was presented, but it was quite interesting. I looked it up a few months ago.

 

[Biollantefan54]

Maybe it is just a coincidence that they have similar teeth? Elephants have similar teeth as us, so do rhinos, there teeth is made for eating grass, ours does the same thing at one time.

 

[ShredderEmp]

Maybe it is just a coincidence that they have similar teeth? Elephants have similar teeth as us, so do rhinos, there teeth is made for eating grass, ours does the same thing at one time.

Maybe.

I don't think much will come from a search, but I'll try it.

 

[freedumbdclxvi]

http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-news/great-white-shark-evolution

To get you started.

 

[ShredderEmp]

http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-news/great-white-shark-evolution

To get you started.

Thanks. I guess I was wrong. I'll keep looking.

 

[Smokehound714]

I got tired of NatGeo focusing on drugs, gangs, and people killing random animals. Hillbilly Handfishin? Good grief!

Discover was alot better back in the day, when they focused on science more.

Even the show "nature" has lost its appeal to me, but to be fair, I began watching it when George Page was the narrator.