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WyrdO

Oct 12, 2016 @ 8:57pm

Megalodon.... ALIVE... IRL!

https://www.facebook.com/thebuzzchannel/videos/1906016152959437/

whaaaaaaa?!

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123

Oct 12, 2016 @ 9:00pm

The Pacific sleeper shark, Somniosus pacificus, is found circumglobally on continental shelves and slopes in temperate waters from the surface to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft). Its length is up to 4.4 m (14 ft), although it could possibly reach lengths in excess of 7 m (23 ft). So, still plenty big, and maybe this is an example of a larger specimen than has been found before, and for that it bears some interest to science, but still not a Megalodon.
It would be considered rather small if it were actually a megalodon. Fossil records of that extinct shark species suggest that it reached a size of nearly 60 feet in length.

Last edited by 123; Oct 12, 2016 @ 9:02pm

WyrdO

Oct 12, 2016 @ 10:01pm

Yeah, the video clearly explains the shark is AT LEAST 50 feet in length based on the 10 foot cage placed in the scene for measuring size of whatever took the bait. Could be that Megalodon was always a deep see shark, or that like the giant squid, it's just a a giant shark that lives too deep for anyone to regularly encounter... in any case, if a megalodon is what you want, it'll do until we have more evidence [like a corpse, which seems to be the only proof many people will accept, haha].