Shark Week 2013- Do yo think megalodon exists?

[ShredderEmp]

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.

The show Shark Men is currently on Nat Geo Wild and it's a great show. It's all about tagging sharks and learning about the Great White Shark's migration patterns.

 

[skar]

No. I thought it was real.

Maybe it is . . . Nobody can really disprove it .
No one knows that it fed on whales ! Maybe it survives in the deep on Giant squid and it does not surface for air obviously.
Maybe it has a very slow reproduction rate and is otherwise blind ? Can't go beyond a certain depth for the pressure change.
Don't be bummed out by nay sayers & internet Quarterbacks throwing bombs.
It's all just perspective.

 

[Shell]

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

Here's one article I could find, not the one I initially read, it was far more scientific, but obviously not the only article on the topic. This one sums it up pretty much the same as the other one I read though;

http://www.livescience.com/219-great-whites-descended-mega-sharks.html

 

[cantthinkofone]

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

This just made my life.

 

[Kaimetsu]

If you think that megalodon still being around is likely you need to work on your critical thinking skills. For one thing why did their teeth suddenly disappear from the fossil record 1.5 million years ago?

Anyways screw shark week if you really want to learn about sharks and how awesome they are check out the inside nature's giants episode about the great white.

http://video.pbs.org/video/2192339379/

PBS makes the best documentaries.

 

[Shell]

I have to admit, out of curiosity I watched the Megalodon "documentary" in question...it was pretty awful lol. Awful acting, just bad all around. I found myself just laughing at it, as opposed to even starting to "believe" it could be real.

 

[Munch]

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.

That is what I am always saying . Who says bigfoot is fake or a blue whale is the biggest animal in the world (and I know it is the biggest KNOWN TO MAN!

 

[ShredderEmp]

That is what I am always saying . Who says bigfoot is fake or a blue whale is the biggest animal in the world (and I know it is the biggest KNOWN TO MAN!

I say bigfoot is real...

 

[Akai]

Man who knows. Giant squid exist but we've never seen one alive only washed up decomposed carcasses on beaches or in Sperm Whales stomachs. Coelacanths were thought to have gone extinct in the Late Cretaceous, but were rediscovered in 1938 off the coast of South Africa and btw that is one ugly fish. lol The ocean is so vast and deep and a good amount of it is largely unexplored especially in the Pacific Rim. I hear they have monsters taller then 30 story buildings and you need a giant armored robot to take them on.

 

[ShredderEmp]

Akai, we have seen video of live giant squid. People have tried to raise juvinile giant squid, but they failed. You are right about the chances, and there are for sure animals we haven't discovered yet, but wouldn't you think we would see more evidence on the news? I would also think they would have more TV shows about it. We would also have been seeing them in historical references, wouldn't you think?

 

[Smokehound714]

There was also a live colossal squid caught on film on a fishing vessel.

Also, spectacular footage of giant squid has also been shot. Albeit, juveniles, but giants, nonetheless.

 

[skar]

Yet Giant squid were thought to be a myth till fairly recently, so there you go .