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.
Megalodon means "big tooth". The megalodon shark is said to have lived 28 million years ago and to have become extinct 1. 5 million years ago. They were a more stocky version of the great white shark.
The megalodon lived during the prehistoric times, between around 18 million and 1.5 million years ago.
Carcharodon Megalodon lived approxiamatley between 16 and 1.6 million years ago
1.2 Million years ago but it is still believed it could be lurking in the deeps.
The lifespan of Carcharodon megalodon is unknown. However, we do know that these huge sharks existed from 28 to 1.5 million years ago.
The megalodon shark lived on earth around 18 million years ago. It was on the earth until the time around 1.5 million years ago when it finally became extinct.
It lived in the Miocene period (20 mya).
no because it was extinct with the dinosaurs
nobody knows because they dont exist anymore
Megalodon does 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.
They roamed the waters of the Earth around 18 to 1.5 million years ago.
This is a controversial question. Do any of us really exist? We can never know, but our existences in this reality, though it may not be the purest reality, is certainly evident since we are able to communicate. Now, for the megalodon. It is a topic of scientific debate. No one can know for sure if the megalodon existed or exists, because there is unclear and inconstent evidence for it. It may have existed, and could still exist in deep pockets of the ocean known as trenches where humans are unable to observe marine life.
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what is the megalodon's gestation
If you mean the extinct prehistoric shark Megalodon, none. If you mean meglegons, none, because they don't exist.
No, the megalodon no longer exists. This giant shark became extinct approximately 1.5 million years ago. There are some who believe that this prehistoric creature still exists, but there is absolutely no scientific basis for this belief. Those who claim the megalodon still roams the seas can be categorized among those who also believe in Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Yeti.
what is a female megalodon
Megalodon - film - was created in 2002.