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C. megalodon was definitely an apex predator for more than 20 million years.
Amazingly, this doen not mean megalodons could not have been preyed by other very large predators.
During the Miocene, very large predators, like Livyatan melvillei, shared the same waters, and searching for the same preys. Encounters were inevitable.
This predatory odontoceti cetacian could reached the same size of extant sperm whales, or even larger. Confirmed lenght of more than 17 metres is accepted today by paleontologists, but VERY FEW fossils of this apex predatory whale were found. Larger individuals are a probabilistic certitude.
Moreover, Livyatan melvillei had not only teeth in BOTH upper and lower jaws - unlike sperm whales - but they had much larger teeth than megalodon (36 cm lenght confirmed).
(As a matter of fact, Livyatan melvillei had the largest teeth EVER found in a carnivorous predator, incuding tyranosaurus, pliosaurs, mosasaurs and...
...megalodons!)
And Livyatan melvillei most probably hunted in packs, and were formidable predators.
About the maximum size of C. megalodon, the present consensus among paleontologists is that megalodons probabiy had an average lenght of about 16 metres, and large specimens could be not much more than 20.3 metres, according to the fossil teeth and vertebra centra available at the time of this consensus.
In the meantime, a considerable larger fossil teeth was found, with 193.67 millimetres (7.625 inches) in total height (previously, the maximum fossil teeth height was 168 millimetres (6.6 inches).
The truth is nobody knows for sure how large a megadolon could be.
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Does the megalodon exist?
no because it was extinct with the dinosaurs
What animals eat dinosaurs?
Megalodon Sharks.
Did the megaldon live before dinosauras?
No. The megalodon lived between 25 and 1.5 million years ago, while dinosaurs lived between 230 and 65 million years ago
Were dinosaurs living in northwest Washington?
all i know is megalodon lived in Washington no dinosaurs
What was bigger the megalodon shark or a dinosaur?
It depends as dinosaurs came in a wide range of sizes. While we often thing of dinosaurs as huge most were actually small. Anchiornis, a dinosaur of the Late Jurassic, was about the size of a dove.BY this measure, megalodon was larger than most dinosaurs, but not all. Some sauropod dinosaurs would have been larger than megalodon.
Did the Dimetrodon come before or with the dinosaurs?
Dimetrodon live in the Permian period, which was before the dinosaurs.
Did cavemen live before dinosaurs or after dinosaurs?
The lived during the dinos.
Who live before dinosaurs?
they just found a new species of crocodiles and they predict that they lived before the dinosaurs
What really is the megalodon?
Megalodon Shark is an ancient shark that lived back around the time of the dinosaurs. It was much bigger than any shark we see nowadays.
Did mosses live longer than dinosaurs?
Yes. Mosses were around long before the dinosaurs were.
Did the dinosaurs live before Christ?
Obviously BC. BC stands for "before christ", there were no dinosaurs walking around with jesus christ in the bible
When did megalodon live?
The Megalodan lived between 16 million to 35 million years before the ice age
