Megalodons? What are your thoughts?

[snailaquarium]

I watched an interesting documentary last night suggesting the Megalodon still exists, they showed a whale that had been cleanly bitten in half and suggested only a Megalodon could do this. Sadly though with fake news all the rage these days, you can't believe anything.

Did Discovery Channel fake the image in its giant shark documentary? | George Monbiot

George Monbiot: Image showing Megalodon swimming past U-boats off Cape Town was doctored. Come clean, or prove me wrong

www.theguardian.com

 

[PhantomCarp]

My thoughts are the same as the videos

 

[Salty&Onion]

They don't exist. Discovery Channel faked the images, theguardian is a trusted page so.

 

[snailaquarium]

They don't exist. Discovery Channel faked the images, theguardian is a trusted page so.

Well I'm scared of beingbitten by a normal shark lol.. Never trusted the sea. May I saw Jaws at an age I shouldn't have done lol. I know I watched Silence of the Lambs when it came out, I was 9.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

My opinion on megalodons: You'd need a really, really big tank.

 

[Colin_T]

They have big teeth and cause hurties to things they bite

On a serious note, they might still exist but there wouldn't be many. The ocean is vast and people are still discovering new things in it.

The Megalodon could live in deep water and people haven't fished for it. I mean what would you use as bait, a cow, small whale or 2 tonne of fish?

 

[snailaquarium]

David Attenborough did a good show called Blue Planet, and a second series too, I think he had something on there that was considered extinct.

 

[Salty&Onion]

They have big teeth and cause hurties to things they bite

On a serious note, they might still exist but there wouldn't be many. The ocean is vast and people are still discovering new things in it.

The Megalodon could live in deep water and people haven't fished for it. I mean what would you use as bait, a cow, small whale or 2 tonne of fish?

You're actually scaring me man.........

 

[WhistlingBadger]

David Attenborough did a good show called Blue Planet, and a second series too, I think he had something on there that was considered extinct.

I believe that was the coelacanth.

Chuck Norris once caught a megalodon on a 3-weight fly rod.

 

[Colin_T]

You have nothing to worry about Salty. If a Megalodon comes into shallow water, everyone would see it, they are pretty big. And an adult Megalodon isn't going to worry about eating a human, you are just too small. The shark would swallow you whole when it inhaled.

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The Coelacanth is still around. They found them off the coast of Africa and there are apparently some in public aquariums now.

 

[FishFinatic77]

I don't think it exists. If it did, then I think the whale would have been eaten instead of bitten in half. Plus, I think a Megaladon's mouth would be too big to just bite the whale in half. The whale was probably killed by a boat.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

 

[Colin_T]

Maybe it was a baby Megalodon that bit the whale.

 

[Salty&Onion]

The Coelacanth is still around. They found them off the coast of Africa and there are apparently some in public aquariums now.

Yeh, I saw one in a public aquarium, but I have seen it

 

[PhantomCarp]

Yeh, I saw one in a public aquarium, but I have seen it

They thought the coelacanth was extinct because they had very old fossils of it. It also wasn’t rediscovered In till recently so they had no reason to believe it was still alive.