Shark Scientist Reacts to The Meg (2018)

I watch and review the shark science in The Meg! #sharks #science #ecology #marinebiology
I am Dr Sam Munroe, and I’m an ecologist. That means I study plants and animals and how they interact with their environment. I got my PhD in ecology studying sharks and so I love watching shark movies and dissecting the science (or lack there of) in these films!
Remember that sharks are important for healthy oceans and most species pose no danger to humans. Shark bites are incredibly rare, sharks don’t target people, and when bites do occur, they are often a case a mistaken identity. Sharks should be celebrated and respected, not feared.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:55 Fictional Research Station
01:38 Meeting the Team
03:35 What is the Mariana Trench?
05:53 Life at the Bottom of the Trench
09:02 Meeting the Meg, could it live at the bottom?
11:19 It's a Boy!
12:04 Meg Fast Facts
13:26: How do Sharks Breath?
15:25 How did the Meg Escape?
17:41 Capturing the Meg
19:52 How Many Gill Slits?!?!
20:45 Could the Meg Breach the Water?
22:34 Sharks Scavenge a Whale
23:39 Killing the Meg
Social Media and my credentials:
Twitter: / sem_munroe
LinkedIn: / samantha-munroe-26b484b3
Website: www.smunroe.com/
Research Publications: scholar.google.com.au/citatio...
Sources:
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[@Cuckoorex]

Great point; the Meg is supposed to be biting whales in half but then he goes after something that wouldn't even count as a snack? Gotta love sci-fi!

[@masterreaper115]

I mean MAYBE they were trying to say its bite force could cut a whale in half...but other than that it does indeed make 0 sense for it to go after jason. At least with the woman in the cage the water was chummed so shark smell blood and go brrrrr

[@dragonrage500]

@@masterreaper115 maybe its after him cause he annoyed it all to hell :D

[@wahn10]

Sometimes we like finger food. A little human bonbon. Or an amuse bouche.

[@moistwrmonastring1017]

Happens to me every time there’s an animal horror film. Why’s the crocodile in Lake Placid eating those guys? Why are these giant piranha trying to eat people? I guess we’ll never know

[@moistwrmonastring1017]

@@wahn10 fair point, I do like a good treat from time-to-time, perhaps the Meg feels the same way

[@LoneWandererl0l]

Not sure if someone mentioned it in the comments but the reason they gave it more gills was because of how deep it was living and had adapted over time, great reaction by the way :)

[@0predaking0]

Yes!!! the extras answer a lot of questions

[@theplaguepadart3743]

I think the older movie the Deep blue sea would be really fun for you to break down since its so far from reality and have your thoughts on it.

[@Kneel21]

I completely agree

[@tshelby5212]

Deep blue sea not the deep blue sea

[@theplaguepadart3743]

@@tshelby5212 Thanks for Correcting me, I don't know why i thought "The". Its been a while since I've seen it.

[@FeuerblutRM]

Far from reality? Deep Blue See might actually be the most realistic of all shark movies I saw so far (not counting movies such as Open Water). For me it's still the best & I'm glad they acknowledged the intelligence of sharks, that sharks can indeed hunt in coordination and the plot about their brains not ageing like our brains is also not far from the truth. They also widely treated the mega-Makos as animals, following their instincts, and not some mindless monsters. Also their shark animatronics puts JAWS to shame in terms of realism! Best shark movie and I will die on this hill anytime!

[@grahamstrouse1165]

@@FeuerblutRMthe goofy science in Deep Blue Sea wasn’t as insane as the goofy science in The Meg, but it was still pretty darn silly. 🙂

[@Santacat9592]

Whenever the Meg 2 comes out later this year, you should totally react to it as I loved this reaction!

[@erickchristensen746]

Eh I won't be watching her reaction to it because it's barely a Reaction Video at all. Just super long winded explanations like she is treating it as a documentary and such. I get that she is a scientist and expert on sharks but it completely detracts from the actual entertainment value of being a "Reaction Video"

[@chriscage669]

Your Wish is granted!

[@K0r1ISH3R3]

@@erickchristensen746 You do realize you don't have to react a certain way when watching something right? This is a reaction *and* a review. I actually prefer this to most reactions because shes actually teaching you certain facts about Sharks, with a very positive attitude as well.

[@adheenhusin-oz5kk]

it will come out in august 4 brotha.

[@jamessantos9861]

@@erickchristensen746You’re just conditioned to enjoy the very generic reaction videos. Some people want more and she delivers more.

[@TheOddestBall]

I still love how, in the scene where the Meg tries to bite through the glass, you can sea it's Caudal fin moving in the back. They really wanted this scene to be as realistic as possible whilst also keeping the whole "idle shark" thing. That's why I really like this movie.

[@allister6092]

Don't most sharks suffocate if they're not moving, tho? 😭

[@Wizardbane-ev9zk]

I love seeing a fellow Marine Biologist explain the same things i had to tell my class. I had my class watch the meg in class and then we had to pick apart all the things wrong with this movie. I also specialize in Sharks. I will be forwording your video from You Tube to my class as well so they can see I am not the only one saying the same thing. Thank You.

[@drsammunroe]

Thanks so much, I hope your class enjoys it 😀

[@Wizardbane-ev9zk]

@@drsammunroe In class now and the class is stone quiet listening to you. That is a first being this quiet LOL

[@nathaniellampman2052]

One of the biggest mysteries on earth that we know so little about is our oceans and what creatures that haven't been discovered yet? The megalodonis one of these creatures. There is some proof but not definitive proof that can say the are real or not yet. You can be marine biologists know so much about creatures and the water. Evolution of the oceans is still yet to be discovered and proven. Who can really say that megalodon or other prehistoric creatures are still lurking in the depths of our oceans?

[@nightimegame]

I remember doing a shark dissection in high school Zoology class and pur teacher told us that a few classes ago one of the girls was being careless and trying to force the scalpel into the shark instead of cutting carefully and it ended up breaking the scalpel and lucky she was wearing goggles because the piece of scalpel hit her in the face. So yeah i know all to well how thick shark skin is.

[@jarrettowens6073]

That thick? Wow, that's crazy.

[@nightimegame]

@@jarrettowens6073 since sharks bite each other during mating they need thick skin imagine having skin as thin as ours and sharks still having their sharp as hell teeth. Lol

[@nattie_imbang]

When I was a kid and watched Finding Nemo, I always asked myself when I saw Bruce (shark) on his side, my 5-6-year-old was like, "Why does Bruce have scars on his sides?" And then I came across this video, and literally just answered all of my questions about marine life and all that stuff. (The questions I have and was already answered in this video) 1. What are the gills that are used for in sharks? 2. How can you determine whether the shark is male or female? 3. Is the skin of the shark thick? 4. Why do sharks move all the time and open their mouths while swimming? And all of the facts that I didn't know was definitely mind blowing. I didn't know hammerhead sharks can be notoriously shy.

[@drsammunroe]

I am so glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for watching!

[@kylereese4822]

@@drsammunroe The amount of gills.. how do you know that is too many ? it`s an apex predator that`s evolved in unpolluted waters eg higher Oxygen rated water... more oxygen means more muscle mass = more oxygen required = more gills to provide that oxygen... Evolution.

[@wadewilson8011]

Wow, I learned all that when I was 5 and asked my dad after watching JAWS. My dad was a walking encyclopedia. He severed in the Marine Corps and people don't know that the Marines aren't just a bunch of gung-ho jarheads. There's a lot of classes and history being taught in Boot Camp. Being an amphibious tactical group, you learn about the sea and land. So he had a LOT of knowledge about marine (sea) life. He bought me a set of encyclopedia Britannica (this was the early '80s). In turn, I read a lot about sea (and land) creatures. I also joined the Marines later myself and learned more things for myself. Also paying attention in science class during grade school didn't hurt either. It was all1 covered in our biology and Zoological chapters of sea life.

[@bowlining]

This movie is based on a novel series by Steve Alten. Although the book has a lot, and I mean A LOT of inaccurate information in it, such as a belief that Megalodon is just a large copy of a GW, but it has a lot more interesting concepts of adaptation and speculative evolution. The book is overall is a lot better, as it's similar in tone to a mix of Jaws and Jurassic Park. Check it out, it's great fun) The extra gill-slits in the movie are also meant to be an adaptation for an oxygen-poor environment of the trench. Thank you for a great video!

[@drsammunroe]

Thanks very much! Glad you enjoyed it! It seems like most people think the book is better, so I will have to check it out!

[@bridgethaines7127]

@@drsammunroe Yes, in the book it's explained that they, and a lot of their food sources (which there are many more of in the books) dove deep due to the ice age dropping surface water temps too low for life, to the warmth of the thermal vents, and got trapped down there because of temperature differences.

[@bridgethaines7127]

There's also stuff regarding the sudden increased oxygen making it go crazy which is why it attacked everything. The fact it could only surface at night because light blinded it from a life in absolute darkness, and it was albino like most deep sea creatures. The science was still hilariously bad, but it was enough for sci fantasy and the books were just fun reads.

[@maximaldinotrap]

To be fair to Steve Alten the giant great white thing in his book was what was thought of it at the time and is more an example of science marching on.

[@wadewilson8011]

​@@bridgethaines7127 you do realize that the book is only going to offer a more ENTERTAINING and IMAGINATIVE experience. She's NOT going to "learn" anything from an even MORE unrealistic narrative, just because it's coming from the source material. She's an ecologist. The book isn't going to allow anything to, "make more sense" on an scientific level.

[@kevinnorwood8782]

A few facts/trivias: 1) Growing up, I had always believed the maximum length for Megalodon was about 75 feet long. I figured it shouldn't be any bigger than that because Nature sets size limits on her creations. But as I recently learned from other shark scientists, that's about 22 meters, which is actually in the middle of the size range they mention in the film, and is apparently on the bigger and unlikely side for Meg's size. 2) In the book(s), the Megalodons are albino, and they're also bioluminescent. They've removed both of those qualities for this film, and I think that was a smart choice on their part. The author Steve Alten himself said, "Albino animals in nature don't look natural. In CGI they just look fake." 3) You are the third marine biologist/ecologist/shark scientist I have seen who has latched onto the detail that the Megalodons have eight gill slits (another is the host of the Shark Bytes channel here on KZbin). This was actually a conscious decision on the filmmakers' part, and one that I honestly didn't even notice until I watched a behind-the-scenes featurette. They gave it additional gill slits because they were trying to figure out how it would get enough oxygen if it was living at such extreme depths, and the best way they came up with was to give it extra gill slits. In that respect, I like that they kept it at eight, because any more than that would have made it feel kind of like an alien, honestly. 4) At the end of the film, when the Meg's carcass is getting devoured by all the other sharks, you may notice a shark actually swimming out of the Meg's mouth. In the books, the female Meg is actually pregnant, and gives birth to about four pups about 3/4 of the way through the book. However, only one of these pups survives by the end: A female who gets captured by Jonas Taylor and the others and named Angel, and she becomes the central creature for the next few books in the series (there are at least seven books in the Meg series by Steve Alten). When the film came out, the theory was that that shark that swims out of the Meg's mouth IS, in fact, Angel herself. And it looks like that theory has been confirmed, because The Meg 2: The Trench has been confirmed to release later this year.

[@drsammunroe]

Wow thanks for all the background from the novel. Maybe I should read it someday. I am a bit sad they didn't make a huge, glowing, albino meg! What a sight that would have been, but yes it probably would have looked pretty fake. Interesting fun fact about the gills slits. I assumed they did it purely for aesthetic reasons. Like they made this giant CGI shark and it looked like 5 gills slits were not enough so they just added a few more on. But there you go! Thanks again!

[@erinbibb]

The first couple of books are very entertaining. He tries to make it seem somewhat scientific. Obviously not real world science but Angel is epically awesome.

[@keyofheartsheartwings6664]

I think Angel won’t be involved in the movies. Maybe she’ll have a “cameo” or get mentioned, but nothing more than that.

[@Avankiri]

Wouldn't loved to see the original death of the Meg, where Jonas cuts her heart out from the inside cause she nearly swallows his glider and the only way out...is in.

[@grahamstrouse1165]

@@drsammunroeThe fact that this was adopted FROM A BOOK hurts my brain a little. That and the fact that this is an ongoing series…

[@tdpmayhemyt]

Something I didn’t see anyone else notice before but in the original Jaws movie there’s a guy walking along the beach calling for his dog before the little boy gets eaten by Jaws. The dog’s name was Pippin. In The Meg, there’s a Chinese girl calling for her dog and that dog’s name is also Pippin. I guess that was a hat tip to the OG shark movie.

[@goblinkingofpotatoes5823]

I love the way you describe/ teach things! It feels like you could be like Bill Nye

[@drsammunroe]

Wow what a nice thing to say! Thanks so very much! I grew up watching him and wanting to be just like him as a kid so that is just about the best complement someone could give :)

[@deyuannawood2649]

"Let's ruin it with science!" I love it

[@user-ql7jv2qx9z]

Fun fact about the large amount of gill slits, the VFX artists for the film added them as something the Meg would've evolved to have living so deep underwater where there's less oxygen.

[@Debbie338]

“Let’s ruin it with science!” This is exactly why I watch these kinds of movies and I love them. ❤

[@lanvout]

came for the movie reaction, stayed for the science lessons

[@drsammunroe]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@PurpleDrac]

I think she's dead on the money for a shark that size not selecting humans for food. it's behavior is way off as she put in the video seriously doubts it would even care that it's in the water.

[@PurpleDrac]

and if you observe them behaviorally they are more like cats than ravage beasts and bite things out of curiosity the way they had this thing coming at the crew wouldn't have happened. For first contact with humans, it sure was coming at the crew like rabid dog as if it were a known prey item. Glad she clarified the gill slits too with it's size. 60 to 75 feet was it's max. and somehow even with all of that she still thought it was good movie! And it's true. (it was) 🙂

[@maddyhenderson9622]

I clicked on this for fun, and I absolutely loved this video. Very fun and informative, and I genuinely learned a lot about stuff I didn’t know I wanted to know! 😅 well done ☺️

[@drsammunroe]

Thanks Maddy, glad you liked it!

[@Sarisfaction84]

I was watching this while doing chores, and I swear I thought you said your name was Salmon Roe lol my mind went "oh how fitting for an ecologist!". Very informative and entertaining video :)

[@drsammunroe]

Haha well I am glad I was able to keep you entertained. I also watch a lot of edutainment when I clean my house :) thanks for watching!

[@logangrimnar3800]

Biggest issue was placing the sharks in the Marianas Trench, when in the book it was just an ordinary trench that was not very popular to researchers. It still had that layer covering it, and the navy did use it to listen for soviet submersibles. In fact, that was a major reason so few scientists knew about, the government kept its location from being explored for years, even afyer realizing there were seamonsters in it.

[@shannondarbonne3595]

You should also do Deep Blue Sea! Fun one to watch

[@ek9509]

A SHARK scientist reacting to a SHARK movie is... just what we needed to see. Especially on the prehistoric Megalodon.

[@grahamstrouse1165]

There are quite a few of those out there…

[@ek9509]

@@grahamstrouse1165 Well, good. The more shark scientists out there, the more they can correct us on the goofs about these shark movies.

[@smolwhiteboi486]

So the fact that it is larger than real megalodons and has more gill slits were both intentional design choices. The extra gill slits in particular were added because of the fact that it was in the Marianas Trench, as the depth would mean less oxygen in the water.

[@jeanninelockridge5235]

This was an amazing video. I love your explanations of the science in this movie. Very informative and easy to understand. Good job.

[@drsammunroe]

thanks very much!

[@stefanlaskowski6660]

It would be really cool if Megalodon were still extant, but it'd be unbelievably dangerous to study them in the wild.

[@kevinnorwood8782]

Thanks for your reaction! I knew that I was one who requested you react to The Meg, but I had no idea it was the most requested of them all! I would have thought something like Deep Blue Sea would have beaten it for sure!

[@drsammunroe]

Thanks so much! I did get a few people asking for Deep Blue Sea, but if I had to choose one that I find more entertaining and fun to watch, I would pick The Meg every time. The actors in The Meg know exactly what kind of movie they are in and they really lean into it. Thanks again for your support :)

[@manxgirl]

​@@drsammunroeWill, you do "Deep Blue Sea" now that you've done "The Meg"?

[@sallobo777]

A giant Megalodon chasing a tiny human to eat while there are hundreds of juice whales to eat nearby. Is like a person chasing a mouse around their house to eat while there are a couple of pizza boxes on their kitchen table.

[@Cocoaben]

i love watching react videos like these, it's great hearing pros call out mistakes in movies that obviously weren't meant to be taken seriously :-)

[@TheMtVernonKid]

This was great. I hope you continue. You have a lot of material so many movies

[@drsammunroe]

thanks very much! I certainly plan to keep going with more reviews.

[@jonwmeyer11]

1:25 I remember reading that. That is such a disappointment. Tons and tons of movie with underwater facilities and all we actually have is something the size of school bus.

[@xejelah]

as far as the public knows

[@00koopa]

This movie is one of my favorite movies because I love sharks and because of how over the top it is. I really liked this videos, it was really fun to see a marine biologist break this down! Thank you!

[@drsammunroe]

Thank you very much!

[@LordHayabusa85]

4:10 Clark’s first & second laws: 1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

[@MadcapMatt]

Deep Blue Sea with Samuel L Jackson is definitely a reaction that you need to do on here

[@TheKyrix82]

"We've been down there" This is so fascinating to me, because like, 30 years ago, when I was in school, we heard about how we had almost no knowledge of the bottom of the trench, because we didn't have anything that could survive those depths, and even our ROVs like Alvin couldn't do it to any major degree.

[@arizona_anime_fan]

hi dr sam, loved your reaction, it's very knowledgeable, however one thing you said struck me as wrong. there is a fishing channel on youtube, some fishermen were fishing in sydney? harbor, maybe? i can't recall really where it was but i think it was in Australia. this was during the quarantine, and they caught a young great white... maybe 4 feet long, very young great white. they brought it in to shore and unhooked it and displayed something fascinating, the shark was sitting there in the shallow water gulping water "buccal pumping" just fine. the fishermen were not surprised and said they'd seen that behavior in the young whites they caught often. now maybe this is something only young great whites can do... but it was a fascinating thing to see, because i always believed they needed to swim to breath too.

[@erika_itsumi5141]

I have read and seen multiple Shark week Documentaries that said the Meg could easily reach 100ft long.

[@xejelah]

Well, if it's on shark week....

[@Tiber234]

Edutainment :) Doc I really enjoyed this session picked up a few things too, and your "its not frickin mithrel" comment had me laughing

[@drsammunroe]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching :)

[@nigeldonaldson1647]

A LOT of this film is deliberately played for laughs sacrificing authenticity. Apparently, Sharks don't have skeletons, but some...rubbery underframe, which could well explain why no skeletons have been found, also it's VERY difficult to scale an animal's size, based just on a tooth.

[@saidi7975]

they do have a skeleton... except it's basically cartilage XD Hence why fossilization of sharks is pretty hard save for their teeth...

[@noxteryn]

Cool reaction! Very instructional! I'd love to see more videos like this one!

[@drsammunroe]

Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed it. I will try to do more reaction videos in between videos on different ecological concepts. Let me know what movies you would like to see :)

[@noxteryn]

@@drsammunroe I guess anything about natural disasters or animals or disease would be fun to watch you break down! If you're looking for something shorter and more popular, you could try the "A Big Piece of Garbage" or "Crimes of the Hot" episodes from Futurama, which are about pollution and global warming respectively.

[@paolo-1283]

@@drsammunroe Please react on another Shark movie that is coming called the black demon!

[@okoala62]

Fantastic video! I thoroughly enjoyed this! Thanks for posting!

[@dennisboone1580]

i think you missed the point of the movie they were talking about an entire ecosystem unknown under the "fog" so its not meant to be real, seems like you were being kind of harsh.

[@AndriaTheKobold]

Right away my first reaction when she said "Dr Sam Munroe", I heard "salmon roe".... and she's an ocean-animal researcher XD

[@beaufryer2042]

This was a really enjoyable watch thank you ☺️

[@shipambrosia]

This video was a great way to test how much I’ve absorbed from my limnology/ichthyology/marine bio courses! I was really happy with how much of your explanations I knew or understood! (Especially the thermocline, limnology was very hard!)

[@drsammunroe]

Glad it was helpful! What are your plans for your education?

[@shipambrosia]

@@drsammunroe oh my gosh I didn’t expect a reply! I’m receiving my masters in ecology in December. My bachelors is in plant biology, and I really hope to study coastal wetlands for my doctorate!

[@drsammunroe]

That sounds fantastic! You will have expertise in such a broad range of topics. I wish you every success 🥳

[@michaelschlobohm8877]

And when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, the production studio behind The MEG, has announced a sequel. *Gets excited in science*

[@bebeemiller3020]

I could listen to her for hours. So interesting and informative !

[@drsammunroe]

Thanks for listening! I am so glad you enjoyed the videos :)

[@DerpDevilDD]

That's a bit of a silly argument, isn't it? "Why would they stop using these habitats all of a sudden?" Well, since the alternative is that they all died, presumably because there wasn't enough food or their breeding grounds weren't safe or the habitats themselves became inhospitable, those would be the reasons to adapt to new habitats and evolve to survive in them. Not insisting that there are secret megs in the depths, but it's not a mystery _why_ they'd shift diet, behavior, and habitat. "We know all these animals died in a forest fire and aren't hidden in different territory and habitats. Why would they suddenly leave the forest?" Uh, because it was on fire.

[@shanewilson7994]

That was an awesome review, thank you for putting this stogether.

[@drsammunroe]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks very much for the positive feedback 😀

[@SamTownsBladesmith]

I loved this reaction, as someone with little to no knowledge about aquatic fauna. I love that your name also fits your occupation haha

[@drsammunroe]

Thank you so much!

[@thickerconstrictor9037]

One of my biggest pet peeves is when people say megalodon might not be extinct because we've only explored 5% of our oceans. If you say that, you have no idea about how science works or the megalodon. We know a ton about megalodons and we know that when it was alive, it was in warm oceans all around the planet and especially coastal regions. It's number one prey items were whales and other mammals and it had its nurseries close to shore. Every single one of the areas that megalodon would have frequented, would have been considered the 5% of the ocean that we have not only explored but that we frequent. We know quite a bit about the extreme depths of the ocean and we know that the pressure in the Mariana trench would be far too much for a megalodon. Also the deeper you go, especially the extreme peeps, there is nothing that would be able to sustain the food requirements of a meg. Whales are not in the extreme depths. Nor are the other mammals that they would be eating regularly. If they were alive they would still be hunting whales they would still be having nurseries close to shore. They would still be dumping your teeth all over. Not only do we not have any teeth less than three million years old, we have millions of teeth collected. If they were alive this entire time we should have teeth dating from 3 million years ago 2 million 1 million 500k 400k 250k 100k 80k 50k 40 30 20 10 500 years 250 years 150 years 50 years etc. We would have teeth dating all the way down to the present time. We would find whales with giant holes in them floating. They would be reliable sightings. A 60-foot apex predator does not go around the ocean without leaving evidence. It would have to knowingly stay in the extreme deep and intentionally evade detection which is ridiculous. people like to use the coelacanth as an example of why megalodons could be alive but that's actually an argument against them being alive. Coelacanth is not a 60-foot apex predator that hunts in the upper regions of the ocean. It is a 6-foot deep water cave dwelling fish. And you think that we were able to find that but not a 60-foot shark that swims in the 5% of the oceans that we are in every Day? A deep-water cave-dwelling small fish is not the same as a 60-foot apex predator that hunts mammals. Saying that megalodon changed 25 million years of existence in the upper reaches the ocean and then suddenly go to the depths permanently is ridiculous. That's like saying we went to Antarctica and all the penguins ran out of food there they collectively all went to hide in the Sahara desert where there's even less food. And since we haven't explored 100% of the desert, penguins could live there. Almost all of marine life lives in the 5% of the ocean that we frequent. So we don't need to explore every inch of ocean to know that there's not a megalodon there. Also in order for a population to still be existing there would have to be hundreds of the animal left. Not just a couple. In order to avoid inbreeding there needs to be hundreds of animals. So if you think that there's a possibility that megalodon is still alive you do not know anything about science whatsoever you are only using what you want to be true not facts or evidence and not science

[@wahn10]

Jesus Nick. That's a lot.

[@squicker]

Whilst I think this is a great post, I do wish you'd realise that punctuation is not an extinct entity.

[@scientic]

That big button to the right of the letters can be used to start a new line. It's quite useful.

[@thickerconstrictor9037]

@@squicker I'm not in school anymore I use talk to text and on KZbin, talk-to-text is awful. It cuts you off mid-sentence it has horrible errors and I just don't care enough to go through and fix shit. Either you get the gist of what I'm saying or you don't.

[@thickerconstrictor9037]

@@scientic yeah but that would imply that I care enough about grammar on KZbin to a bunch of strangers to actually take the time to do it. I used talk-to-text for everything and no offense but you don't particularly matter enough to me to take the time to make sure I pass your grammar test. You understood what I was saying and if you didn't then no big deal. I'm well aware of how to write properly I just don't give a shit anymore. I'm not in school and again this is KZbin and I'm too lazy to even type on my phone let alone go through and check the grammar.

[@colinlllanbadarn2039]

Thank you for this . Talking mostly about the second MEG film , but a little of the first one . The idea of a giant shark isn't the problem . What ruins these films , as was the last film , is that main character kicking the GIANT shark in the nose . ( I know all about the senses in the sharks nose ) but here it is . ........ any thing over the size of a Rhinoceros moving at a speed towards Jason Statham is going to break bones in many places of any human . A monster shark , many tonnes heavier , crashing through a wooden platform at a rate of nots snapping planks like twigs IS NOT going to be stopped by Jason Statham's big left toe . He WOULD be SPLATTED like an un boiled egg , through those boards and all over the beach front sand to which the platform was attached . A white tip shark can decimate a persons leg with one bite and a tug . The MEG would make you vanish in an instant , IF ...... IF .... You was even on the menu . REMEMBER as you said , these creatures fed on whales back then . Plenty of power enough to brush through Jason Statham like a spec of dust . Unless WE are watching these films for it's comedy value ..... in which case .... nock ya selves out people . The beginning might be worth a watch , but then i think it will get silly again . Thank you again . 🌹

[@Thurgosh_OG]

We are just watching for the comedy and action, not the realism in these kinds of films.

[@gg_endgame]

Just go with it. These movies aren't meant to be too realistic, they are meant to be comedy action. But anyways I watched the trailer and if you look very closley you can see the meg caught in a metal chain and struggling against the chain during that scene so when Jason kicked the meg it stopped the already struggling meg from advancing. Also the novels exist so...

[@masterreaper115]

Your first mistake is comparing Jason Statham to a human.

[@Fenris30]

(Sigh) There is a Chain wrapped around the shark stopping it's momentum and he's just pushing off it to get away.

[@hamakochan375kj]

You see, movies are made only to ENTERTAIN people, not to EDUCATE them for fucks sake -_-. Also, you must be a pain in the ass while watching a movie with you....

[@jonunya1163]

What I found unrealistic was this: when in the trench, it seemed to hunt using the bioluminescence of other animals. Which is why I think it attacked the sub. But when it got to the surface it went feral and just started hunting anything that moved

[@M0rn1ng5tar]

Apparently the book explains that it will try to eat everything due to it having super fast metabolism

[@charleswinthrop5929]

Dr. Munroe, I must commend you on a superb video that was entertaining as well as informative! I do have one question. having recently seen the trailer for the MEG 2 that is due out in August of this year what are your thoughts on that?

[@drsammunroe]

Thanks so much! The truth is I love these movies and I am so excited to see the Meg 2, no matter how inaccurate it might be ;)

[@andrewvidmar3488]

you got to understand about the trench they had to give a reason on why noone has seen a Megladon and they gave a reason that could be believeable even though its not

[@paulwalker9732]

At 13.42, she mentions the meg being a ram breather, simply put, the smallest sharks like dogfish and read sharks can sit still and breathe like a goldfish, or Pike, but once you get to a certain size or bigger, the sharks become ram breathers, they must keep moving forwards, or they suffocate. Depth-wise, a family of sharks called sleeper sharks are the ones found deepest, around 12'000 ft down, they can get to 15 to 20 ft in length and are slow movers.

[@ricanman85]

Devils advocate here, I don’t think this movie was looking for completely realism 🤣

[@mattkeith1180]

Salmon Roe…. The fates have a sense of humor.

[@drsammunroe]

Right? Thanks for watching 🙂

[@Zeus1701E]

If you want to go off the deep end, have you seen "Underwater"? A horror/sci-fi movie....just curious to see your take on Cthulhu and it's minions. 😅

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Yes, that would be a really interesting 'review' on that fun film.

[@Eldyra]

I just found your channel and I love your videos. If I may suggest something: There's a novel called "Into the Drowning Deep" by Mira Grant, it takes place around the Mariana Trench and is about a group of scientists looking for certain creatures (the scientists also consist of a very diverse group of with different specialties). I love that book. Especially when they start their expedition, there's a lot of science involved in the story. The author also made a lot of effort to explain the creatures they eventually find. It is a deep sea horror, but the only one I've read that makes so much effort to make it appear like a possible scenario. To me it all sounds very well thought through and smart, but I'd love to know how accurate the science is. Maybe you could consider this for a video? It's not about sharks, though 🙈

[@drowningincats3921]

She studies fish and if you say her name fast enough it sounds like “Salmon Roe”. Some ppl are just named correctly.

[@BlackieNuff]

Very cool reaction - informative and enlightening! I was fascinated by sharks and spiders as a kid, but equally terrified of both, lol. Still, I read whatever I could on them. Most of what I read/learned has been confirmed here by your commentary, and some of what I thought I knew has been "corrected", such as the nature of the Hammerheads (I thought they were aggressive man-eaters like the Great Whites and Tiger Sharks).

[@taylormcdermott4670]

Wow made it through 1 minute. One minute I’ll never get back

[@donkeysunited]

25:05 "It's not indestructible, it's not frigging mithril". Nice!

[@jorismilleret]

That was a very interesting analysis to listen. You explained very neat points !

[@drsammunroe]

Thanks!

[@Perfektification]

Have you reacted to Jaws movies? just wondering. this was really fun to watch it's strangely entertaining to watch a specialist react to movies like this but I love it please do more :3 😍🦈

[@lindseyziegler9869]

I was enjoying this reaction (I love The Meg as a cheesy bad movie!) and then you mention mithril and I subscribed so fast. A geeky scientist - that's my kind of people.

[@drsammunroe]

Glad you enjoyed it :) Thanks so much for your support

[@Sinester.Sweetie666]

So in the book which is wayyyy better than the movie they were going to retrieve to retrieve seismic gear in the bottom of the trench and the male got caught up in the towing line and the female fed off the male as it came up to the surface which the gushing blood kept her warm as it came up through the frigid waters. She was also pregnant which was the premise for the next books.

[@damonlongstreet8630]

It's really a shame Alten's work is being thrown in the trash just to spotlight more fast n furious nonsense

[@vampirefinchgaming]

me miss hearing things as usual: "Hi im Salmon Roe." Having said that this was thoroughly enjoyable. I love learning about the inaccuracies in movies whether they are scientific or law related. I can't wait to watch your other videos!

[@notemaker3000]

I heard “my name is Dr Salmon Roe” 😂

[@monkeybrain0212]

This was so interesting! Learned a lot of new things from this video 😁 also a shark with mithril skin sounds dope 😂

[@vanessasutowski5308]

You should read the book “Meg” by Steve Alten. In the book, the Meg comes through from the deep water by killing another Meg and being coated in it’s blood, not by opening a thermal vent.

[@wadewilson8011]

That doesn't sound any better. In fact it sounds even MORE vague and ridiculous.

[@GreenAcresIIGA]

Such an accomplished, well spoken young lady! Thank you for sharing. ❤

[@LordHayabusa85]

3:31 What you have to keep in mind though, is that this a movie adaptation of a book and that it may not necessarily be 100% faithful to its source material.

[@xejelah]

the book was fiction

[@LordHayabusa85]

@@xejelah So?

[@beckyfal]

Did anyone else seeing this as their first video hear her say “Salmon Roe” instead of Sam Monroe and start giggling really hard? Just me?

[@drsammunroe]

Haha yes, I hear it too. I guess I will need to start saying my full name :)

[@zoebelle8970]

14:30 The shark was nervous too. He was holding his breath.

[@0predaking0]

I recall in the extras, said that they ask experts about the shark frills and the Skin of the animals in the deep sea.

[@A_Imp_kon_floing...bdoing]

18:01 that reaction is actually kind of sweet xD

[@ryokowes7]

Question: Is the video out of sync with the audio?

[@mikelmacrichard4772]

Great video thanks for confirming I haven't totally forgotten what I learned about sharks 35 years ago.

[@drsammunroe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@wahn10]

I wonder if Megalodon was good to eat. Imagine the sheer number of steaks you could get out of just one...

[@dovahstudioz5453]

The Meg 2 is coming out in August! I highly recommend watching the trailer!

[@TheGael4ce]

Great video and love your expert opinion! When you first introduced yourself I could of sworn I heard you say salmon roe haha!

[@drsammunroe]

Thanks very much :) And yes, my name is well-suited to my career. I think it even says salmon roe on the CC!

[@hoibsh21]

Now they gotta come out with Megnado.

[@gwennedawson4766]

From what I understand, the animators tried to do at least some science for the look, like changing the skin texture and colors, adding gills for low oxygen, etc and studied shark movements and musculature and so on. Obviously taking extreme liberties (size obviously). But they did try at least a little to make it somewhat grounded.

[@ronain]

One of the biggest kicks out of submersion for this movie for me was the pressure differential. If they came from so far down, wouldn't the difference in water pressure affect it badly?

[@drsammunroe]

It's a valid question. While some species are capable of swimming across fairly large depth ranges, many species that have specifically adapted to survive in deep water can't survive in shallow environments.

[@simonwang6048]

Great work! Thanks for your review. I would also like to be an oceanographer, Dr. Shark sounds cool too！

[@drsammunroe]

Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it! Oceanography is an incredible field, there are a lot of different aspects you can study, including physics, chemistry, or biology 😃

[@prestonnephew7862]

17:35 while it may be exaggerated in the movie, with the assumption of a thick fluid barrier trapping warm fluid, the rapid expansion is most definitely possible. The composition of the warm fluid is salt water and some mixture of H2S, CO2, and other trace gasses in a mixture. Another factor to consider is that despite common teaching in lower education, water is in fact compressible, and even more compressible when it has solution gas. All of these factors would result in a (relative to the water above the barrier) lightweight, compressible (or think of it as wanting to expand as pressure decreases), high temperature, high pressure fluid.

[@erlendsvenssson8534]

I heard "I am Dr. Salmon Roe" And I was thinking, what an excellent name for a marine biologist

[@thor3279]

too funny, your name sounds like Salmon Roe :) How appropriate for your training! great info, fun channel, I'm glad I found ya!

[@drsammunroe]

Thanks! Glad you found it too!

[@maryjorgensen4756]

Having seen this and your reaction to the Meg 2 trailer, I would LOVE to see what you thought of Deep Blue Sea.

[@FemmeFataleHD]

I loved this video, Can you do 47 Meters Down Uncaged, 47 Meters down or the Shallows next?

[@drsammunroe]

Glad you liked it! I will definitely add these movies to the list :)

[@DelphineIgnia]

23:59 I believe that ship is called 'Evolution' so he was basically saying that he was going to potentially sacrifice himself in an attempt to kill the shark

[@saheiracarry3467]

A funny thing being that if they paid attention to the first megalodon they killed and had known how to decipher the gender they would have known it was a female that they killed and the one they first met was a male (20:50)

[@robertantinone4902]

I am also a HUGE Dune fan. And, as it happens, you are the same kind of scientist as the Dune character Liet Kynes (a man in the books, a woman in the most recent movie). I would LOVE to see you react to Liet Kynes in all 3 live action adaptations of Dune: the original movie from the 80s, the SYFY miniseries from 2000, and from the "Dune: part one" movie from 2021. Hell, if you've read the books and can offer insight on the character from those, that would be PHENOMENAL!!!!!

[@pukkadwam3791]

Great watch 😁. If you're interested in making more shark movie reaction videos I'd recommend The Shallows, it's one of the better received modern shark movies and personally I think it's pretty cool. I will await your Meg 2 reaction video 😊

[@drsammunroe]

Thanks very much!

[@abdelrahman_s4leh]

super great video I wish to see you reacting on the meg 2

[@CheesePoutine]

18:55 I can imagine it would come over curiously. Since most sharks are so curious, I would think the Meg would be too. But I can't imagine it would even swim at him quickly, it would probably saunter over and think "what is this thing?"

[@livpostel9473]

Dr. Salmon roe? 😂 sorry I had to after hearing it; loved your Meg reaction!

[@theseafaringtaco]

I like to think that that hammerhead at the end was just coming to check out what was goin on, not trying to eat anyone.

[@williehawkinsii4845]

I can't wait for you to do the second movie

[@nickbuchanan190]

Hello Dr. Sam! I really love your research again! I just have a question... could a shark ever have a conscience like a human does? It s that possible?: