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#11
May 10 2009 09:12pm
I doubt it. We'd probably have at least one documented sighting if it was 60-70 feet long.
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May 10 2009 09:34pm
Quote (PoleErrrBare @ Mon, May 11 2009, 03:12am)
I doubt it. We'd probably have at least one documented sighting if it was 60-70 feet long.


One documented sighting can possibly give scientists a craze, if there is camera proof
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May 11 2009 03:49am
Quote (Bloober @ Sun, May 10 2009, 08:34pm)
One documented sighting can possibly give scientists a craze, if there is camera proof

Yeah, but there isn't any photo proof, so I don't even see why you would entertain the idea.
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#14
May 11 2009 06:23am
This thing ate whales / dolphins etc... I think we would know about it if one still existed, it would totally screw up the ecosystem today since predators of that size don't exist anymore.
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May 11 2009 08:08am
Quote (Bloober @ Sun, May 10 2009, 08:13pm)
You bring up a good point there, but I doubt it's a hundred feet long.  100ft sounds way too exaggerated (I dont know why the fishermen in 1918 getting crayfish said it was over 100ft, although some said it was over 300ft O_o).  The largest recorded megalodon was around 60-70 feet, sounds reasonable, right?  Our ecosystem can probably handle it, depending on how much it eats by any chance,


If it did still exist, we would have made it go extinct by now. Most whale species are endangered because of human activity, and our ecosystem can't support more than a few dozen of a predator that size. Cut down on the food, starve the sharks to death. They couldn't exactly eat krill once their food became scarce
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May 11 2009 01:17pm
Quote (Bloober @ Sun, May 10 2009, 08:04pm)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/MEG1.jpg

This is a question that kinda bugs me, but who here thinks the Megalodon is still alive?  I think it is because:
We only discovered a small portion of our ocean, which means there could be one or more still out there.  Just look at the coelacanth.  It was thought to be extinct, but one was fished out in 1938, which means there are more out there.
There was even a possible sighting in Australia in 1918 when a few fishermen were catching crayfish and said to have spotted a hundred foot gray/white shark, which could possible be a real Megalodon.

But I dont know, your opinions.  For those that don't know what a Megalodon is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalodon


I think sharks swim primarily close the oceans surface and so a comet colliding with the earth and blocking out the sun would therefore block the energy source the shark uses. Megaladon is too big too survive the KT extinction, I think.

This post was edited by vRoXorKakaav on May 11 2009 01:40pm
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May 11 2009 02:06pm
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I think sharks swim primarily close the oceans surface and so a comet colliding with the earth and blocking out the sun would therefore block the energy source the shark uses. Megaladon is too big too survive the KT extinction, I think.


Megalodon went supposedly extinct long after the comet hit (about 25 million years ago)
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May 11 2009 02:54pm
Quote (Bloober @ Mon, May 11 2009, 04:06pm)
Megalodon went supposedly extinct long after the comet hit (about 25 million years ago)


I did not know that.

I just googled how they went extinct and it says they dont really know why they went extinct which kind of means they dont know if theyre extinct. But im sure if such a creature were still living, the dead carcass' of that species would wash ashore. Like for example with giant squids, we never really encounter or see them, they just wash up ashore and so we know they exist. Certain species live too deep to observe, and so only through their death can we study them.

I would think the same rules apply. Im sure almost all dead species of such a size float to shores when they die.
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May 12 2009 03:09am
Quote (Sioux @ Mon, May 11 2009, 03:08pm)
If it did still exist, we would have made it go extinct by now. Most whale species are endangered because of human activity, and our ecosystem can't support more than a few dozen of a predator that size. Cut down on the food, starve the sharks to death. They couldn't exactly eat krill once their food became scarce


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May 12 2009 05:50am
Quote (Sioux @ Mon, May 11 2009, 02:08pm)
If it did still exist, we would have made it go extinct by now. Most whale species are endangered because of human activity, and our ecosystem can't support more than a few dozen of a predator that size. Cut down on the food, starve the sharks to death. They couldn't exactly eat krill once their food became scarce


We'll probably never know unless we go down the undiscovered waters
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