The MANY Interpretations of Megalodon!

[@DinoGuy8]

DISCLAIMER: I do not include EVERY depiction to ever exist. There are multiple different reasons as to why that this. A huge reason for this specific video, is that most are simply scaled up Great Whites. I don’t have too much to say for something like that. So yes, a fair amount are not included. Also: Looks like I mistakenly removed the depiction that appears in Primal. So, here are my thoughts: it looks pretty good. The Megalodon is a fitting creature for the show.

[@nateperez7768]

Good point. Things you missed: The ghostbusters cartoon had a megalodon that looked like a mosasaur The ocean hunter, which has a megalodon which is called Leviathan Shark hunter, a movie about a guy who wants to kill the meg that ate his parents Megalodon, a movie of the same name that has a megalodon released as a result of an oil rig accident The mega shark films with outrageous oversized megs

[@AndrewDavis-sj6mb]

Megalodon, the king or queen of fierce and harmless 🦈.

[@MarkTheDilophosaurus281]

That’s understandable

[@landenriley8442]

It also appeared in Megalodon returns

[@gabrieljvelez-perez9275]

And in the last Sharknado movie, or it could just be an upscaled Cretoxyrhina. Speaking of which, could you do that shark next, as well as Xiphactinus.

[@Camels_Rule2005]

It really sucks that only the jaws and teeth of sharks get fossilized. Almost everything else about extinct sharks is basically a mystery.

[@josiahreed-kj7ph]

We also have handfuls of the megalodons vertebrae. Also, Cretoxyhrina has a full-skeleton preserved(however, fossil preservation of sharks is rare)

[@emilsohn1671]

There is an old more complete specimin from Belgium where the spinal vertebrae are well preserved. But it's very rare for more than the teeth and jaw to fossilize.

[@Best_Username777]

@@josiahreed-kj7phThat’s literally impossible, sharks don’t have bones.

[@josiahreed-kj7ph]

@@Best_Username777 their cartilage is calcified so it preserves better and longer. Search up megalodon vertebrae

[@josiahreed-kj7ph]

@@Best_Username777 it’s not impossible it’s just extremely rare and search it up

[@sabretoothtiger4314]

The Megalodon is frankly awesome, no argument. It’s awesome

[@bogus69]

I think Laura Derp (Dern) would be a fitting name.

[@Sharknerd04]

Would you do interpretations of Dunkleosteus please?

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

Hard to really mess up something like that.

[@Sharknerd04]

@@LordCrate-du8zm wydm?

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

@@Sharknerd04 I mean unlike Megalodon we have a pretty clear picture of what it looks like. It’s not too different from media to media.

[@Sharknerd04]

@@LordCrate-du8zm yeah but I kinda want to see it’s many designs

[@hordegaming4771]

Mean they're pretty good in Ark and there is an Alpha version of the Megalodon that is a bit too stocky too rounded but. Length wise is pretty spot on, plus I'd imagine seeing as they predominantly hunted whales their heads would be more like Bull or Tiger Sharks than a Great Whites, teeth are an almost match to Great Whites but overall I'd say they're probably more like Tigers. Why I like the design in Ark as it's not too pointed at the tip of the head and JWE2 design is very good in my opinion

[@HelloGello-vj6po]

My favorite Megalodon is from both Hungry Shark games

[@ight_bruv423]

13:52 THATS JUST WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK(im in full denial😭)

[@josiahdrake2632]

We definitely gonna need a bigger boat with harpoons and guns to bag this monster shark!🚢🦈

[@ensakable8412]

really wanted to see the shark from mega shark vs giant octopus

[@austin.j.barrett]

clicked this video because it was something that looked interesting but your accent immediately caught my attention, you sound like the guy from demolition ranch so I'm gonna guess you're from Texas

[@DinoGuy8]

I am not

[@austin.j.barrett]

@@DinoGuy8 damn, ah well, I guess its just you guys that sound similar and not a texan accent thing

[@joshiboshi6878]

7:58 Um ActUallY thE meg livEd alOngside DinosAurs becAusE Birds aRe DInosaUrs 🤓

[@DinoGuy8]

Haha, yup

[@xgekozx3305]

7:56 In fairness. In the novel the scene is treated as fake and a hypothetical of "what if" a megalodon and t rdx encountered eachotheg

[@Anon-jg7uj]

The sense of scale in Ark always feel off in 1st person.

[@alexciesielski1840]

Megalodon in JWTG, if megalodon went to hell Maybe next interpretations are like elasmosaur, ophlamosaur, deinosuchus or sarcosuchus

[@Boomerjojo79]

Where is hungry shark evolved it has the megalodon in it

[@LatteCookieEATEOTWV]

Hungry Shark world also has Megalodon

[@stringsandsprockets7845]

this guy was 5 Y/O decided he like dinosaurs and never looked back. thats dedication right there

[@brianlevine871]

I think my favorite appearance of Megalodon in media was that episode of "Primal." It's hard to resist seeing a caveman and T. rex battle a giant shark in the middle of the ocean. Also, I'm glad you picked my suggestion for the Brachiosaurus figure's name.

[@devanpretorius451]

basilosaurus episode when?

[@Syntax_Assassin]

Yes

[@PerfectYakon2219]

I hope he mentions The Ocean Hunter Basilosaurus

[@dj_nyx8903]

The longest time I thought they were a dinosaurs. Turns out they're ancestors of whales.

[@Syntax_Assassin]

@@dj_nyx8903 yeah the saurus in the name is misleading

[@dwaynejohnson6644]

In about 3 weeks

[@evodolka]

the Jurassic World one had no right being so amazing, like legit why is it so good?

[@ThisMadeMeLoseMyBrainCells]

Ark Megalodon is really small and has always been. There is a slightly bigger version of it as an alpha variant with a red glow around it.

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

the problem with ark is everything else is unrealistically sized and the FOV is increased. Megalodon is a somewhat small realistic size, but it should have been bigger because it deserved better than just being the great white of the ark. Everything else is giant in ark so idk why they decided to just make it small. Thats why my verison is bigger in my ark mod. Megalodon had the strongest bite force of any animal. it deserved better rep for ark than being a OP pack animal

[@logimoe]

@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778yea fr is useless in the game when it should be like a top tier water tame like the mosa, titanoboa could've been bigger as well

[@ITS_MysteR]

@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778The Meg in ark is actually pretty accurate from what a lot of people have said. Everything else is very upscaled, but it’s in the lore that the Dino’s are bigger than their normal counterparts because of many mutations and adaptions in the ark ecosystem.

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

@@logimoe yeah titanoboa is just canon foder for caves and it sucks

[@plumzilla29]

Big shark that fights big whales, THATS A MEGALODON, RUN (or swim)

[@MarkTheDilophosaurus281]

It was also eaten by whales

[@OnurTheXbot]

@@MarkTheDilophosaurus281 Only juveniles were

[@TyrannosaurusRex1997]

​@@OnurTheXbotCorrect

[@MobyTheMerpup1852]

5:40 There’s a better version of that picture somewhere on the Internet that gives a size of 86.7 Feet to 90 Feet.

[@muddysudz6550]

Don't bother, you can't outswim it

[@MrT_Rex]

We're gonna need a bigger boat

[@Scalesthelizardwizard]

With bigger guns

[@Masklord303]

Partout où je vais, je te vois

[@ghostshirt1984]

Megalodon is extinct so you don't need a bigger boat.

[@ghostshirt1984]

​@@Scalesthelizardwizardthey are extinct so you don't need a bigger gun

[@Scalesthelizardwizard]

@@ghostshirt1984 I know that it's a joke

[@ExtermCentral]

From the realm of literature, one cannot forget the impact of Steve Alten's Meg series. Them albino glowing sharks make for some terrifying imagery.

[@OddMoonlight]

Imagining it in my head, they seem almost Lovecraftian on my end, and that's terrifying.

[@hunternuew6900]

Megalodon is my favorite non-dinosaur creature

[@trudykim1995]

HA I KNEW IT!!! as soon as that scene in the Meg 2 with the Tyrannosaurus Rex I was screaming at my TV "THATS INACCURATE THEY LIVED IN DIFFERENT TIME PERIODS!!!" my husband did look at me abit funny though as we were watching..... 😂😅🦖🦈

[@j_boc]

The meg’s megalodon also had extra gills as it has adapted to living in the trench, the smaller meg is also a different color indicating its age

[@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto]

From what I've read, they actually hung out in more shallow waters than I would've thought especially as they grew from juvenile to adult, which would give credit they weren't as thick as we see them, they'd be more slender and longer.

[@Bossbruin]

I hope we get to see Megalodon in Prehistoric Kingdom.

[@kaijuar2003]

I absolutely LOVE the depiction from JWE2, it ISN'T an oversized great white and DOESN'T look anything like one. It reminds me more of a tiger shark mixed with a mako shark, which is terrifying. You can also tell from the slender body that it is based on the newer reconstruction, which makes it look similar to a mako shark in slenderness. JWE design gets a perfect 10/10 from me. They absolutely nailed it.

[@stopmotion-Negan]

I agree I’m just so glad we got it In Jwe2 I thought they would never add it lol

[@a-rat-in-your-walls]

​@@stopmotion-Negan How the hell does Jurassic Park even clone an aquatic animal.

[@AerCloud]

​@@a-rat-in-your-walls back when the Mosasaur was first introduced in JW, I made a joke that they got the blood from "underwater mosquitoes" In reality, maybe from some sort of aquatic parasite?

[@joao_G0602]

Agree

[@kaijuar2003]

@@a-rat-in-your-walls As the other user has stated, there MAY have been some aquatic parasites such as lamprey which they found well preserved specimens of. That or fossilized arthropods such as copepods which some feed on the blood of larger animals.

[@Stole_Us]

9:39-13:43 , It would be nice if you included Hungry Shark’s Megalodons

[@godzillafan19543]

You should do "The MANY Interpretations of Neanderthals!" that would interesting

[@glarnboudin4462]

There’s a few weird ones you missed. Dino Squad Hungry Shark series Skull and Bones (admittedly unreleased)

[@Mimic_45]

You forgot a few: - The giant shark from Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus and its sequels is supposed to be a Megalodon. - The shark from The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island is often assumed to be a Megalodon.

[@nateperez7768]

There was also the meg mockbuster films by the asylum and the jurassic shark films we don't talk about

[@marktrigg467]

I assume the Swimming Sharptooth in The Mysterious Island is a Cretoxyrhina personally

[@Cloudrunner62]

You should consider doing a trial series of an Ark playthru. Look up some of the better single player settings to keep it from being such a slog. Ark is a legit fun game to get into.

[@GriffindorDrago]

Yep!

[@bobsmith8405]

Megalodon is also in the Endless Ocean game series and season 2 of the he show Primal

[@LethalSaliva]

I love Endless Ocean 2!!!! I can't play it because we don't have an adapter to connect Wii to our Roku TV.

[@peterman8603]

My favorite interpretation of Megalodon is the Megalodon from Chased by Sea Monsters :) That's where I know it from.

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

Same.

[@KadenSlinker]

What are your thoughts on the paper from this year that Megalodon may have been longer than previously thought

[@kadenfilms4524]

I think they would somewhat resemble a mako

[@MarkTheDilophosaurus281]

Basically these depictions are all decently accurate because its pretty hard to screw up the look of a shark

[@wojo44frompl]

Years ago I found drawing of Megalodon in one book about prehistoric animals. It was shown from the front and I could describe it with one word: Derp. So, yeah... there is possibility to made bad drawing of shark.

[@alexandervelez9507]

sharks have many different looks though. a great white looks nothing like a hammerhead or a nurse shark. it’s unlikely that megalodon looked like any of them.

[@majorgalah]

@@alexandervelez9507 its pretty likely it looked like a large great white to most people

[@alexandervelez9507]

@@majorgalah not really, it was more related to a bull shark than a great white.

[@majorgalah]

@@alexandervelez9507 they are literally in the superfamily “Lamnoidea” which isn’t even close to bullsharks, guess what else is in the super family lamnoidea? Great whites and all of their relatives!

[@mangogmartin9315]

Ark megalodons are pretty huge, you just have to trigger third person view to actually comprehend the size difference between the player and the shark.

[@2345Z]

If you're doing a sequel to this video, you MUST cover the both the Hungry Shark Evolution & World versions of the Meg

[@bkjeong4302]

I find it interesting that a lot of depictions play up how massive this shark was, but don’t focus much on just how long it was around for and the fact it faced yet outlasted a very high level of cetacean competition (to the point some depictions and until recently even academia argue it was outcompeted by raptorial cetaceans, in spite of this making no sense whatsoever based on the timeline)

[@AdvSpringBonnie]

For Sea of Thieves, it is officially called a megalodon, as the shanty "summon the megalodon" is what was used to summon it for events.

[@mojointhedojo938]

If always found it kinda stupid when people say that 90% of our ocean is unexplored and that we should explore it, and im just there like... Why? Like most of it is a underwater desolate wasteland with nothing there!

[@Sharknerd04]

You also left out these Megalodon designs in films shows and games Jaws Ultimate Predator Shark hunting the great white Depth Fish feed and grow Shark hunter Mega shark series.

[@m1xoperation514]

They should’ve made it look like a giant short fin mako tbh but just with a slight changes

[@kelseymcharg9245]

I do like the name laura. How about the name grandma longneck from the land before time. I’m just putting this out there

[@zetaprime1243]

While it is interesting as an animal, the fact it is a "cryptid" after that one year of Shark Week has made me not like the animal as much. Plus Liviatan or Basilosaurus are more my speed when it comes to Cenozoic ocean apexes

[@Marius696969]

The megs in ark are smaller than they should be but it's explained within the lore that the ark itself designed them to be smaller. One of the explorer notes by Helen I believe states that they're not the right size and far to many of them(lorewise).

[@austinjackson2574]

There's a game I play really often called "Maneater" where you start the game as a bullshark but somehow turn into a Megalodon by the end of the game! It probably doesn't count in that regard, but the design is very cool!

[@stillmyboy6708]

Good game. I like the dlc where you turn into a radioactive laser shark

[@bugginonthewall]

Another is Thanatos from Endless Ocean 2! He’s basically a giant great white but his spawn is double the average GW in the game. He’s so cool up close! ❤

[@LethalSaliva]

I was going to bring up Thanatos. I love that game!

[@ghostshirt1984]

Megalodon is extinct and no proof Megalodon still lives so it's a guess how they look like. They died out so ago that only early man were around and if early ancestors of man did see Megalodon then there was no record painted on stone

[@averagegremlin]

Subbed just because you like dinosaurs and wear a cool cowboy hat

[@A113-p9e]

The Meg technically isn’t the same Meg species millions of years ago, but the evolved descendant. More so explicit in the books w/ them being white and glowing. As for the famous imagery of it eating a T. Rex in context of the book, it was merely a short film made by Jonas (who became a paleo/biology teacher at a college I think) to demonstrate the ferocity of the animal.

[@TomasGomezGoitia]

If you get a JP trike figure, you should call it Sam to go along with Laura, since Sam Neill portrayed Alan Grant and Alan's favourite dinosaur is triceratops.

[@DinoGuy8]

Great idea!

[@user-H_m]

Just want to clarify: Megaladon WAS alive with dinosaurs, just only the birds. Birds are dinosaurs, and Otodus megaladon was alive with birds. None of the giant ones like Tyrannosaurus or Triceratops or any of those.

[@DinoGuy8]

Yep

[@Meme-penguin69]

Dunkliosies next and i dont know how to spell the name

[@goku-san]

That argument of we don't everything about the ocean to justify the nonsense that Megalodons aren't extinct gets old. They're often cited as living in the Mariana Trench for some reason. In the hypothetical scenario where Megalodon still existed in modern times, it would not be the same species as the extinct one because despite the outward appearance not changing much it would be different genetically because of how much time has passed. It's the same thing as actual living fossils. And it would certainly not be the same species both genetically and appearance if it lived in the trench because it would have evolved to adapt to the hostile environment in the trench. It probably be similar to a sleeper shark. Slow moving to conserve energy even if it remained a large shark (deep sea giantism does have the advantage on dealing with the cold pretty well) since food is scarce. Feeding habits would be different. It's a shame that popular media has damaged this animal and caused misinformation about it being still alive to spread. I gotta say that Jurassic World Evolution one is a really neat design and I like how it doesn't look like a scaled up Great White. The whale shark like spots is an interesting design choice for it.

[@ninjafrog6966]

also the vast majority of the ocean is dead empty space. we know this because the entire ocean has already been mapped out. when people say the majority of the ocean is unexplored, they don’t actually understand that it refers to physical exploration. the entire ocean is already mapped out, we don’t need to physically explore the areas of the ocean where we already know that nothing exists there

[@FMAChet]

"There's always a bigger fish."

[@EstcoTheGamer63]

I think that the meg looks more like a tiger or bull shark

[@dococ3272]

I like the old country style, and what a great concept, a little bit for everyone: folks interested in paleontology can come here, learn about an animal they like, and see movies books and games they may try: and people who enjoy those films books or games get to learn the paleontology on the animal.

[@glorper842]

I like Jurassic World Evolution's rendition, not gonna lie, because it does include a lot of recent ideas of what the Megalodon could have looked like. It's also believed they would have had larger pectoral fins than Great Whites (which is included), and you already mentioned the "long and thin" idea. I believe we also think it would've had a flatter jaw and shorter nose than a Great White. Also, this is just an idea, but if the Megalodon is a tropical fish that hung out I'm warmer waters, I feel like it's counter-shading would be more suitable for tropical waters, so even it's coloration would be unlike that of a Great White.

[@kingbumblebeetv]

I love sharks

[@Sylveonyie]

I was so exited when megladon got added to jwe2!!! i love the different skins they are all really cool

[@mtmstudiosmolly]

You made a Megalodon video, and didn’t include Hungry Shark Evolution or World?

[@tm43977]

Otodus Megalodon the Cenozoic beast s Portait

[@NightmareKong]

Here are some megalodons missing from here 1. Megatooth Shark (Shark! Hunting the Great White) 2. Megalodon (Hungry Shark Evolution and World) 3. Mega Shark (Mega Shark Series) 4. Mutant Megalodon (Animal Revolt Battle Simulator)

[@玉藻前]

Megalodon in Skull & Bones lookz Fukkin Baka

[@ritesoffirefliers]

Depth does have a Meg that may look like a giant great white, but if you look closer it is in fact a completely different model

[@anthonybusch4407]

Megalodon, The Largest Shark in the History of our Oceans.

[@chancegivens9390]

The megalodons from ark look pretty much the same for every individual, with the only differences being the colors.

[@BinroWasRight]

Dude, this was awesome. I dig your style and am now subscribed. I'm a huge paleontology nerd, lifelong lover of all things sharky and fossil collector who specializes in aquatic predators of all kinds, so this was right up my alley. Sharks, crocodylomorphs, ancient marine reptiles and the non-avian dinosaurs are all my jam. I agree the new longer model for O. megalodon is interesting, especially as it appears, if this hypothesis is correct, that those long bois could have attained a max size of around 25 m/80 ft, which is just willd. It's also been hypothesized that they had a proportionately blunter snout and longer fins (especially pectoral but also primary dorsal and caudal, with a caudal keel) than the Laminids. Something that's often missed is while their teeth were massive (largest in my collection is about 6.5" diagonal length, which is how they're measured), their bodies were so much larger that they probably looked less toothy than say a great white or sand tiger. They also had what is very likely the strongest bite force of any animal at up to 182,200 N. Anyway, have a great one!

[@EuthanizeAllDogs]

I don't think ARK has spiky megalodons, maybe you're referring to ARK's crazy ah dunkleosteus instead?

[@darkwarriorgames5092]

Typical ark, you get attacked, Gareth Coker blast In Deep Water in ear. “Hold on” 😂 Yeah ARK Meg is really small a little disappointing considering the newer game is bigger other than alphas. I wish they made them bigger in Ascended.

[@GeitenKaas01]

I have accomplished my mission(i also stubbed my toe) Also another possible video idea. Dinosaur tierlist

[@restionSerpentine]

My wife has a picture of her standing beside a set of Meg Jaws at the Smithsonian. There are several terrible mockmentaries, Discovery channel pretended were real Pretty sure that giant mechanical Meg was made for shark week... Double checked and Yes it was from SharkZilla that premiered on Sharkweek The Assylum has a Megashark series that features megs The main reason people still think it is alive, is a tooth was found and carbon dated to about 10,000 but that was using the least accurate carbon dating. Hungry Shark evolution is a fun shark game that has a Meg in it.

[@jamielama7716]

Surprised you didn't talk about the Megalodon in Maneater. Its got some crazy unique skins.

[@volrosku.6075]

given odotdontids in general are closer reletives of Mackrel Sharks (Great whites Makos etc) wouldn't be a good assumption that many of the features would be similar?

[@JackSnell-l8w]

0:21 It is also the largest fish to ever existed. 7:58 CORRECTION: Birds are dinosaurs & megalodon lived alongside with birds which that means that megalodon actually did live along with dinosaurs but not the non-avian dinosaurs.

[@DinoGuy8]

I know. I was mainly speaking on how it didn’t live in the Mesozoic, and so, did not live with Non-avian dinosaurs. I believe we all know where I was coming from.

[@JackSnell-l8w]

@@DinoGuy8 Alright and the Megalodon is also the largest fish in the world to ever existed.

[@DinoGuy8]

Yep. I’d say, that considering we know sharks are the largest fish, that would go without saying.

[@JackSnell-l8w]

@@DinoGuy8 Yeah.

[@dralakba-dusk31]

i love when they take the concept of megalodon and just go crazy with in games. While monster hunter doesn't have a megalodon, it has a beeg shark frog (yes frog) called Zamtrios 😊

[@Bigboy5-km9hl]

Honestly i think that the megalodons in the meg movies are bigger than they actually were.But idk if they were that big.Mostly because it looks 10 times alrger than the t rex.And you should have done hungry shark evolution and world

[@Senbonzakura776]

Wait, its extinct? What about all those KZbin vids I've seen that say its all over the place😅

[@TheWarriorWithDucks]

Those vids are probably clickbait.

[@ghostshirt1984]

Megalodon is extinct and those videos you talk about are fake...

[@ghostshirt1984]

​@@TheWarriorWithDucksthey are fake for views...

[@someonewithno]

11:54 "ichthyosaurs?! back up i'm dealing with sharks"

[@SolurVoludun]

I’d love it if we found a complete fossil of a Megalodon so we could finally know what shape it actually had. Maybe it looked nothing like any shark we know of. Cooler yet if we actually found a living one Maybe, I hope, I could swim with one when I’m dead

[@DucaConnolly]

Since you don't really know much about Ark Survival Evolved, a fun video idea could be to react and analyze all the creatures from it. Since a lot of them are creatures you'd probably never make an individual video about, like Basilosaurus.

[@Th0ughtf0rce]

Recent findings indicated the real Carcharocles/Otodus megalodon bore little resemblance to the modern great white (Carcharodon carcharias), aside from being sharks. The ones we see in movies would best be described as Carcharodon megalodon, a fictional species.

[@TheZombo]

13:21 it's one of the few made up meg species in game there's Blue is hungering one Yellow is ancient terror Black is shadowmaw Purple is crested queen White is the shrouded ghost which many don't believe is real because of how low its spawnrates are

[@vizkus3423]

I dont like the “upscaled great white” interpretation much. I prefer the bull shark look.

[@drifter139]

I remember seeing the trailer for The Meg 2 and immediately saying how dinosaurs had gone extinct by the time the Megalodon was around. nevertheless, it was a good movie

[@hubertdenise3100]

What I hate is the people who think it looked like a whale shark, sand tiger shark, basking shark, or like that hypothetical reconstruction someone made, the one that shows it as really fat and having a super squashed face. For one, the reason filter feeding sharks look like that is because they don’t chase food, they just need to open and inhale, they just swim collecting food as they go, which is why their stocky build works for them, they don’t need to expend energy and don’t need to be fast.Megalodon on the other hand was hunting whales, and anything else it could eat, and we we know these whales were smaller and faster then modern whales, therefore it would need to be slim and streamlined to catch prey just like modern sharks such as mako or great whites.We know it hunted whales because we have found vertebrates with teeth lodged inside and evidence of biting into them. Second, the teeth are completely the wrong ones for a shark to be as bulky like they say it might have been, those teeth are same as teeth like that of Otodus and the modern great white, built for top predators to bite and shear through prey, whereas basking or whale sharks have very small teeth that are designed for filter feeding.It’s also out of place for a sand tiger like shark, as those are more lethargic animals who feed on fish and certainly not on whales. Third, the megalodon would need to have a head that would allow it to take huge incapacitating bites out of its prey, a squashed head like the artwork shows would be extremely impractical as it would not be able to take bites out of prey easily with the nose getting in the way and mouth limited in size. Fourth, it was a mackerel shark, related to Mako sharks amongst others, and it’s ancestors were all classic predatory sharks in appearance, there is no reason it would look so different from all its brethren when it had the same diet. Fifth, it needed to eat a lot, and a chubby body would get in the way of this, slowing it down and making it harder to catch prey, we look at modern top predator sharks and even the great white is still pretty streamlined and slim, there is no reason why it would have any benefit to be so fat.

[@crappyPatty235]

12:35 if your talking about what I think your talking about. Then your thinking of a mod called the collosal megalodon,

[@shiny1556]

I know it’s far from how it actually works in nature but seeing as we largely believe that the Megalodon was a warm coast critter, I like to imagine it was perhaps fairly light in terms of color, probably a bit of a inverse whale shark lol

[@TerrorconLeader1993]

You forgot a movie, Mega shark vs Giant Octopus

[@Velociraptor_Feathers]

theres also a meg in the show primal s2 ep1 sea of despair

[@PookusBoa]

There’s a bigger megalodon in ark called an Alpha Megalodon, it’s just scaled up and emits red smoke

[@SkeleBones646]

You forgot the primal megalodon… tho it’s basically just a big blue great white

[@charizards2009]

The lvl 40 megalodon is Jurassic world the game is in my opinion, one of the most over the top designs in that game.

[@godzilla44556]

Oh yeah baby

[@SIMBA-tq2ch]

You forgot endless ocean luminous

[@SamuRhino2023]

Releeeeeeeaaaassseeeee meeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!