0
What else can I help you with?
How are megalodon considered?
C. megalodon is considered an extinct species by the scientific community.The more recent evidence for a living megalodon is a fossilized tooth dated one and a half million years BCE.
Do megalodon lived on the Philippines?
The megalodon is an extinct species of shark that lived millions of years ago. They swam all over the world and died out a long, long time ago.
Are megalodon extinc?
Yes. Megalodon died out about 1.5 million years ago.
Of the 600 species over 40 million years only the African and Asian species of Loxodonta survive What animal is this?
elephants
When did the megalodon exist?
The first fossil register of C. megalodon is from the Late Oligocene, Rupelian stage, about 28 My ago.The last confirmed evidence of a living megalodon is a fossil tooth, dated aprox. 1.5 million years, during the Calabrian stage of the Pleistocene epoch, in the present Quaternary era.This monstruous shark species (the largest shark paleontologists belive have ever existed in the oceans) was an extremely successful species, living as an apex predatorfor almost 30 million years, a very rare occurence in life evolution on Earth.Species (either marine or dry land), in average, become extinct within 10 million years of its first appearance.This is specially true when we are dealing with apex predators in the top of the food chain, which are usually more vulnerable to climate changes and food supply than other species.
Does the megalodon still alive?
The megalodon is only known from fossilized teeth. They date from 25 to 2 million years ago. Megalodon died out during the early Quaternary period of the Cenozoic era.
Did the megalodon exist?
Megalodon did exist. Their teeth were commonly found fossils for hundreds of years before it was discovered that they were actually the teeth of a giant shark. Before that, they thought that the teeth were the petrified tongues of dragons! Megalodon were sharks, that may have been up to 50 feet long, and who commonly hunted whales. They existed between 25 and 1.5 million years ago.
How old is the megalodon shark?
It became extinct 1.5 million years ago, but it would have lived as long as any other shark probably. SuperSlasher
Can megalodon kill the mosaur?
It would not have been possible as Tyrannosaurus Rex lived during the Cretaceous period and Megalodon during the latter Oligocene. They were incompletely different eras. However, as an estimation, Megalodon would have it's own advantage in open ocean rather than T.Rex which was not a strong swimmer.
When and where Carcharodon megalodon fossils found?
The only Carcharodon megalodon fossils that have been found are teeth. They lived between 28 and 2 million years ago. They have been discovered all over the world, which is known as a cosmopolitan distribution.
Does the megalodon still exist?
There is evidence suspecting that the megalodon still exist & there is evidence suspecting it does not. Some scientist believe there is absolutely NO way it still exist, and some disagree. People keep talking about how they died out 1.5 million years ago, but they have fossils of teeth from 13'000 years ago. It IS possible that they are still out there, but no one knows for sure.
Is there a bigger shark than the great white?
There is only one species of megalodon shark, Carcharodon megalodon. However, there were millions of individuals over the time and area where they lived. They had a global distribution between 28 and 1.5 million years ago.
