How Did Megalodon Get So Big? | 7 Days of Science

[@melvinshine9841]

How did Megalodon get so big? Sit-ups, push-ups, and plenty of juice.

[@The-Cole-Train]

I understood that reference.

[@AmbyreUwU]

I WANNA, I WANNA, I WANNA BE A GIANT SHARK!

[@VinnyPTAstartes]

A true man of culture

[@ehijieful]

A Super Saiyan shark😂

[@VinnyPTAstartes]

@Nyarlathotep nope something better

[@Nacho12396]

Just noticed Ben's books in the background: second from the left was *the* dinosaur book I had growing up. I obsessed over it for hours! More recently, after resparking my love for paleontology, I got the next one over to the right. It's a solid source book, and I appreciate that it includes plants and non-dinosaurs to flesh out the prehistoric ecosystems. Excellent library, good sir!

[@KC.665]

Same dude, had me searching through my loft trying to find it!😂

[@formersamonellaclone]

Lol I love how Doug just calls the Megalodon a "big fishy"

[@joypark3783]

Because it pretty much is

[@juanjoyaborja.3054]

Biggest cartilaginous fish to ever exist

[@winter2716]

@@juanjoyaborja.3054 I’m pretty sure the whale shark is just as big or bigger.

[@juanjoyaborja.3054]

@@winter2716 Most whale sharks approach 12 metres. Megalodon was estimated to be 18 metres. Much larger.

[@winter2716]

@@juanjoyaborja.3054 You’re cherry-picking data. 18 meters is the absolute maximum estimated size for Megalodon (most were significantly smaller), and quite a few whale sharks get larger than 12 meters.

[@thedukeofchutney468]

How did Megladon get so big? Megladon: “Work out, cardio, ya know eat your green vegetables.”

[@bradwhite5884]

I see what you did, I know where that from, lol

[@winter2716]

Yes, I’m sure Megalodon ate many green vegetables.

[@geigertec5921]

It got big because it ate big things. I did some experimental paleontology to test this hypothesis. First I placed a false shark fin on my back, then I ate 10,000 calories of hamburger meat every day for 30 days - I gained 120 pounds. This is likely similar to how the Megalodon ate massive amounts of food and gained weight and size as a result. Strangely enough when I walked outside following this experiments a little boy called me a 'land whale' then I noticed I was still wearing the false shark fin on my back and I had to correct him - "Land shark!" I shouted. He ran away crying.

[@tjarkschweizer]

What a marvelous study. We will watch your carrier with great interest.

[@goji5052]

You are starting off strong, my friend. We cannot wait for what comes next.

[@bobsmith8405]

So if it's just eating big things why didn't the warmer ones also get as big if they ate the same things?

[@imnothereforthefood7832]

How did Megalodon get so big? Your mom was a HUGE inspiration.

[@sm3xxy]

can you make a video or at least a list, where you show us your paleontology and dinosaur literature that stands behind you and give a quick review about them/your favorite ones?

[@5daboz]

Doug: A rocket crashed into the Moon and the Moon is fine. Also Doug: But it was not fine, it was not fine at all, they dont know how it feels to have a rocket crash into you and no one notices or cares, they dont know how much it hurts, how much it hurts to be scarred forever with no one to notice, the Hurt.

[@nickpickety8303]

I love the 7 dos series. It helps engage people with both history and more recent news. So many fascinating bits of knowledge and important events get left out of the newsfeed media, but here, you guys keep us up to date and maintain a sense of objectivity that is really refreshing. Thank you so much for this and I look forward to every video you guys make!

[@JG-zs8tr]

I find plastic pollution to be a much more pressing issue than carbon emissions. Burning tons of oil may have unpleasant consequences for humans in the relative short term, but it’s well within what the earth’s ecosystems can handle in the long term. Plastics and other non-biodegradable compounds are a different story.

[@n.g.s1mple29]

I read that microplastics have been impacting male fertility over the last couple decades.

[@marsbase3729]

At least there's one good thing 😆

[@n.g.s1mple29]

@@marsbase3729 huh ?

[@sharinganeye9755]

@Jason Ashby Tell that to Africa, where they have the highest fertility rates. The West needs more babies.

[@sharinganeye9755]

@J G You could start by calling out China. They dump nearly 30 percent of all plastic waste into the Ocean. Although, I doubt anybody in the worthless UN is going to call them out on it.

[@highfive7689]

It's great hearing from you again, Doug.

[@MaxxadTV]

More walking with dinosaur videos please

[@pedrogabrielduarte4544]

I Wonder what happened

[@joypark3783]

Yes

[@carrott36]

they take a very, very long time to produce, especially coupled with all the other stuff happening now to do with science

[@MaxxadTV]

@@carrott36 It's been over a year since the last one lmao

[@juanjoyaborja.3054]

@@carrott36 It’s approaching a year since the last episode, and I don’t think it takes that long to research and produce the video for it

[@planescaped]

I remember 4 years ago when the transition from winter to spring was a slow, gradual warming. Nowadays and for the past 3 years it's a rubber-banding up-down spikes of freezing cold and t-shirt warm >__>

[@DneilB007]

A part of me hopes that Doug will someday present some new discoveries about Arion ater, if only for Ben to say, “And now, back to Doug and the...”. The rest of me thinks I need more sleep.

[@nascromt]

The. Moon crash got me, great timing

[@hobosorcerer]

Funding should not be an issue at all when it comes to the health of our planet.

[@GallowglassVT]

That's capitalism for you, my dude.

[@crabbostb4075]

@@GallowglassVT well, tell that to China. Where is Greta Thunberg and other climate activists to tell China about the garbage that China is dumping into the ocean?

[@amandastakeonit7402]

Moms every where, just wanting to comb Ben's "rushed to church" hair! hahaha

[@Infernoraptor]

The concensus was that sauropods walked like camels rather than elephants? Weird. This new model makes so much more sense.

[@zayicza]

That walking animation was so cool to see!

[@danmueller4021]

Nurse here: One of the reasons we crave chocolate is because of low magnesium. Low magnesium can be a side effect of endurance sports such as long distance running. Long distance runners have sometimes been known to crap in their pants during long marathons once their magnesium stores run low - causing them to lose control of sphincters such as in one's anus. Dark chocolate is best for helping with this due to how it is processed. Digestive health is not affected. The athletes who claim cocoa helps are only magnesium deprived

[@thedoruk6324]

We call it Extra *THICC* ! Alas Livyatans entered the chat

[@legendarylegend3744]

Octopussy

[@kennethsandy4741]

Thank yous for proving that it does not matter what day one discusses the science of the day.

[@benmcreynolds8581]

I'm really wanting to learn more about prions and the disorders on health they can produce on us, in ways we are still learning more about. Also PFAs chemicals in water ways. Talking about plastic reminded me of it.

[@laurachapple6795]

Ben looks suspiciously 3D.

[@kuitaranheatmorus9932]

All my answers definitely were answered amazingly in this very awesome

[@thebushna]

Skipped class today only to watch Doug say "big fishie". This week has been great 👍 👌

[@benmcreynolds8581]

I thought we were in the meta verse when the video initially started speaking with the talking cut out. I didn't realize it was a cut out at first.

[@carola7893]

Wait doesn't Doug usually say see you on Sunday??!! Now I'm I'll kinds of confused... And also really want to get a Megalodon tooth...

[@kennethsandy4741]

He has said other odd days in recent weeks . Funny dry

[@winter2716]

What’s on Sunday, anyway?

[@RebleGreyWarden]

Science is wonderful lol Thank you for making these videos!

[@grebnedu1219]

Evolution : How big do you want to be ? Megalodon : *y e s*

[@Joshml98]

You create a scientific study on the evolution of Ben's hairstyle week by week. It looks good.

[@stormevans6897]

Yeah let's just briefly mention a rocket crashing into our moon in the front above our heads.

[@scottbubb2946]

I have always heard that great whites have a top range of 23 feet based on the fluid produced by the liver for buoyancy. It makes me curious as to how the megalodon achieved its size.

[@AnaMartinez-kq4mj]

Megalodon Is Much Bigger Than Modern Sharks

[@chir0pter]

1:57 looks like you forgot to rinse the conditioner out of your hair lol

[@robbylava]

By drinking whole milk, I presume.

[@tapele5987]

For a second, I thought Boris Johnson made the intro 😂😂😂😂

[@WaterShowsProd]

Cardboard Doug used to be the weatherman for Planiverse News.

[@AJScraps]

I’m sooo surprised Cocoa isn’t an exercise supplement for digestion 💀😂

[@eacalvert]

Well done as always lads

[@shawnohagan5503]

Great video

[@Awakeandalive1]

Shout out to Panama, featured at 3:51 in the megalodon segment. XD Puente de las Americas, corazon del mundo!

[@Yezpahr]

Aww, no 2D-Ben :( I was hoping for it after hearing "2D sci.."

[@jacksavage4098]

Micro plastics are showing up in most, if not all fishes.we have no idea what the consequences will be.

[@indyreno2933]

The Megalodon (Carcharocles megalodon) is a member of the family Otodontidae, which belongs to the order Anacoraciformes, Anacoraciformes is an extinct order of sharks that survived up until the Miocene.

[@chandir7752]

Wait so that means the infamous nursery site theory is kinda questionable? The small teeth found around panama aren't small bc they're juveniles, but because the water was warm?

[@CaptIronfoundersson]

That whole bit in grandma's study seemed oddly shot. It was like he snuck in and was filming surreptitiously.

[@raphlvlogs271]

sometimes plastic things can still be reused multiple times long term.

[@Satanperkele]

They ate their vegetables & didn't bitch about it 🤣

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

Oh yes another version of the stegasaur

[@hellfire66683]

So early I missed the intro completely

[@shawncharton9416]

Does this mean that Great Whites are on the way to becoming giants?

[@legendarylegend3744]

Yes

[@timsmith6675]

I'm a Patreon member to hear "big fishies"??? Okay that's fine, I'm just here for my curiosity. 😃

[@ecurewitz]

Damn. I hoping for another excuse to eat more chocolate

[@legendarylegend3744]

**Depression hits** Suddenly, chocolate becomes useful once again.

[@raphlvlogs271]

it is very interesting to imagine what it would be like if humans and non avian dinosaurs coexisted.

[@Venator94]

I recently saw Doug in The Batman. He played the protagonist.

[@stevejohnson3357]

"apparently.." Is that Doug's subtle way of saying not a jock?

[@mjsdecember1990]

How did Megalodon get so big? He ate his vegetables kids

[@booboolips6053]

Hershey Bars have cocoa in them, right?😋

[@mrx4022]

Isn't is obvious? Megalodon clearly drank it's milk. A big shark needs big strong bones :)

[@emiliaolivieri]

Love the content, but I love even more the little jokes you throw around... so "Pythony"

[@Very_Angry_Citizen]

Cardboard Doug gets 5 stars. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@promiscuous5761]

Thank you.

[@dinodan7770]

Big fishey

[@CharlesDParker]

Is Doug still living? His voice has changed.

[@volvos70t51]

Excellent!

[@cg2383]

Ahhh ben you have the same hair cut I had when I was a wee lil lad and me madre would put a metal bowl on mah head and give me a hair cut. Psssshhhh good times, I mean horrible times hated moms hair cuts lol WHY CANT WE GO TO SUPER CUTS 😭

[@napalmholocaust9093]

Cocoa contains caffeine. Caffine raises pain tolerance. I think it works. Especially with the placebo effect of expectations from research. Most people on special diets know what is in their food.

[@Usurper123]

Wasn't one of the theories of Meg extinction that whales moved into colder waters where megalodon couldn't follow?

[@dionettaeon]

It might be relative, and there would still be a threshold limit to its cold-tolerance.

[@bkjeong4302]

The thing is that baleen whales still don’t all migrate to polar areas to feed (which was that that idea assumed)-many populations of extant baleen whale species only head as far as temperate waters to do so, and this likely held true in the past as well, which would still be within reach of larger meg individuals. The more relevant change was that baleen whale diversity in general crashed in the Pliocene, going from numerous, relatively small and diverse cetotheres to larger but fewer rorquals.

[@goji5052]

There was also North America and South America fusing, barring Megalodon from easily traveling throughout what is now the Atlantic and Pacific without going through cold waters it couldn't tolerate.

[@goji5052]

Because even if Megalodon could grow larger in colder waters than usual, everything has a limit.

[@buddhaspriest]

My mom's theory is because they ate their vegetables

[@todabrilla]

Interesting hypothesis around Bergmann’s Rule, especially given that it is typically applied only to endothermic animals.

[@MrWanapon]

But aren't sharks like megalodon cold blooded?

[@SupahTrunks7]

If I emember correctly, being larger helps one conserve body heat so large size would probably be even more beneficial to a non warmblooded animal which has fewer ways to conserve heat

[@GaasubaMeskhenet]

any one worried about slave labor in the cocoa industry should check out my playlist of relevant knowledge to making your own chocolate without cocoa. let me know if there's any knowledge you think helps

[@astick5249]

Oh i have that same Lego T.rex!

[@--Paws--]

So sauropods move like some insects do, but with 2 pairs of legs instead.

[@MF.Shadow]

No the 2d doug is disturbing 😭

[@dinodan7770]

First

[@michaelbuono4007]

Not funny

[@critterjon4061]

He got so big because he always ate all his vegetables

[@RXTRUX1]

Those side spikes....

[@julianshepherd2038]

I believe it is eating their greens. Probably gave them curly hair too.

[@osmosisjones4912]

I thought the Megalodon was not an over grown great white

[@NigelAnthonyBrink]

Everyone knows that the Megalodon became this size because it ate it's vegetables!

[@Czesin]

More like the succulent flesh of helpless prey, yum

[@NigelAnthonyBrink]

@@Czesin /woosh

[@thomaszaccone3960]

And what do these geniuses suggest we replace plastic containers with? And how long will it take for them to get around banning THAT? The problem is proper recycling. Not total banning.

[@davidegaruti2582]

Glass , cardboard , iuta , tin cans , metal cans , aluminium foil ... We can live without it

[@thomaszaccone3960]

@@davidegaruti2582 HA haha. Back to the future. When I was a kid back in the 1950s., we collected used glass soda bottles that people tossed everywhere in empty lots, etc. We washed them and returned them to the stores to collect the deposit. Then for some reason probably cost, they switched over to plastic bottles. I think we got a few cents for small glass bottles and .05 cents for large glass bottles. Back then you could buy a huge ice cream Sunday for .35 US cents - 3 scoops of ice cream, syrup whipped cream, nuts, and a cherry. You could buy a large plastic model ship for 5 or 10 dollars and an airplane for 5 or 3 dollars. Some time ago they used paper bags in grocery stores. Then they switched to plastic to save trees. Now they want to eliminate plastic bags in my state and I don't know what the hell they want us to use then.

[@deadlydingus1138]

David Wellington.

[@The_PokeSaurus]

I'm hungry.

[@cjgonzalez1797]

I assume there was more oxygen in the ocean as there was in the atmosphrer?

[@kirkbupkis]

Or there could be other oxygen factors like gills vs lung efficiency and oxygen requirements in the ocean vs on land

[@danieljohnson2349]

7DOS 👍

[@axamukvar-choikohariicatho8980]

Big fishy: StEgosAur

[@johnmorley6844]

He needs to wash his hair. Somebody had to say it.

[@SamXlk]

LESSSS GOOOOOO

[@t-kozy39]

last

[@tidub119]

Where the dinosaurs? It's plastic and beans and shit...

[@michaelbuono4007]

It is also possible they walked both ways

[@simplebidnessman]

It ate.. a lot?

[@StasiSLG]

They ate a lot.

[@Shaden0040]

Step 1 make it illegal to dispose of plastics in the oceans or in land fills or by incineration.

[@mrcheese9008]

👍

[@ODJJ-77.83]

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[@georgebush8870]

Cus they did

[@drmaxwellandminecddp1116]

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