Who hasn’t watched Jurassic Park for the marvelous yet scary dinosaurs in it that were seen chasing and going around in search of prey? Isn’t it interesting how, with just the help of these movies, we get to see things that we have only read about. Topics like these enhance your curiosity in thinking about how different it would be if you could see these creatures in real life.
I’m sure everyone would agree that somewhere along the way, things like dinosaurs, mermaids, and giants are something that we would all love to see and get to know more about how they function and live and many other things.
This is exactly what fossils and archaeological remains help us with. They give us an insight into things that we have only heard about but never seen, like the Megalodon tooth-size.
This one-of-a-kind fossil allows us to learn more about these marine sharks and creatures that once existed, roamed, and swam in the previous eras. Otodus megalodon, commonly known as the Megalodon, is one of the world's largest predators to be ever known.
It is an extinct species of the giant mackerel shark that lived approximately 2.3 to 36 million years ago in the Cretaceous period. Sharks are known to be deadly creatures that rule the water bodies, seas, and oceans.
They are large in size and swim within the deep oceans and seas, looking for prey. These scary yet powerful marine creatures have something in them that attracts everyone’s attention.
The Megalodon was one of the most powerful marine creatures that roamed the shallow waters and seas in the Late Cretaceous era.
Its teeth were almost three times larger than those of a modern-day great white shark. Interesting, right?
Their bite was the most dangerous and deadly due to their pointed teeth, and as per some of the other fossils, it could be said that these sharks were highly intelligent as they were able to injure their prey’s vital organs, which made them the most fearsome predators.
Megalodon v.s Mosasaurus
This is one of the most heated and hypothetical debates that paleontology and fossil enthusiasts like to know about, as it allows them to learn more about these creatures and capture their imaginations.
Megalodon:
Megalodon is one of the world's largest predators that roamed and swam in the shallow waters of the Seas in the Cretaceous era. As per estimates, seeing the fossil, it is believed that the megalodon is 15 to 18 meters in length.
Its jaws were blunter and wider than the average great white shark. Their fins were of the same size but differed in weight and thickness. It had a pig-eyed appearance and a small, deep set of eyes.
Mosasaurus:
They were known as the ‘Lizards of the Meuse River’ and lived from about 82 to 66 million years ago during the Campanian era of the Late Cretaceous.
They had 45-50 conical and sharp teeth. Due to this, their jaw was double-hinged, and they had a flexible skull, which enabled them to gulp down their prey, pierce it, and then swallow them as a whole.
Megalodon versus Blue Whale
Megalodon:
Megalodon is one of the world's largest predators that roamed and swam in the shallow waters of the Seas in the Cretaceous era. As per estimates, seeing the fossil, it is believed that the megalodon is 15 to 18 meters in length.
Its jaws were blunter and wider than the average great white shark. Their fins were of the same size but differed in weight and thickness. It had a pig-eyed appearance and a small, deep set of eyes.
Blue Whale:
The blue whale is a marine mammal that has a length of 29.9 m (98 ft) and weighs up to 199 t (196 long tons; 219 short tons). Its stomach can hold one ton of krill, and it needs to eat about four tons of krill each day. They are the loudest animals on Earth.
The blue whale's long and slender body can be of various shades of grayish-blue on its upper surface and somewhat lighter underneath.
The genus was one of the first Mesozoic marine reptiles known to science — the first fossils of Mosasaurus were found as skulls in a chalk quarry near the Dutch city of Maastricht in the late 18th century and were initially thought to be crocodiles or whales.
One skull discovered around 1780 was famously nicknamed the "great animal of Maastricht."
Conclusion
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