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Nombre: Carcharodon megalodon

Eslora: Entre 14 y 20 metros.

Altura: 4 metros.

Peso: 50 toneladas.

Dieta: Carnívoros.

Período: Cenozoico.

Años: Hace entre 19,8 y 2,6 millones de años.

Se encuentra en: América, Australia, Asia e Islas Canarias.

El Megalodon es un animal extinto que durante la antigüedad fue un gran depredador de todos los mares del mundo. Grande y voraz, podría identificarse o definirse como un enorme tiburón blanco. No se conoce con exactitud su tamaño real ya que su esqueleto no ha llegado a la actualidad en forma fósil, ya que estaba basado en cartílago, pero sus dientes lo han hecho, teniendo en cuenta las referencias actuales del tiburón blanco Se cree que este animal Podría medir hasta 18 metros.

 

Características del megalodón

The Megalodons were therefore a species of gigantic white sharks with black eyes and mouths that could be up to two meters long and up to 280 huge saw-shaped teeth of more than thirteen centimeters, with a bite force of up to 18 tons, so no prey escaped from them.

What did the Megalodon eat?

Megalodons are defined as super predators since in their adult size they could hunt any type of animal no matter how large their size. Thus, they fed from whales to turtles or other types of smaller sharks. They had a huge appetite and were all day looking for food that they used to live on alone.

 

To hunt their color that allowed them to camouflage themselves, it was ideal to be able to surprise their victims since they were white and gray. Seen from below, its prey could not differentiate it from the water and seen from above they could not observe it due to the darkness that was in the oceans. Thus, it took a lot of momentum with its tail and opened its mouth to wound its victims. Then he left them to bleed to death and later devoured them. There used to be fights between the specimens of this species to dispute the dead victims, as well as with other very large animals such as sperm whales, which were also very aggressiveWhen and where did the Megalodon live?

From the different studies and investigations carried out, it has been extracted that the Megalodon was a super predator present in all the oceans of the planet during the Neogene, one of the periods of antiquity, specifically its samples date from between 28 and 2 million years ago, in the period between the Oligocene and the Pleistocene. Megalodon remains have been found in Australia, America, Asia and even the Canary Islands. It is believed that its distribution was truly cosmopolitan, but that it mainly centered its breeding areas in the warmer coastal areas. Of course it had a great impact on the marine communities with which it lived, since it was a great predator

 

The largest species of sharks tend to move around many places and their geographic distribution is very wide and varied, and this is also what happened with the Megalodon. Fossils have been found in all kinds of latitudes, but especially in the tropics and also in temperate zones..

curiosities of the Megalodon

Below are some curiosities of the Megalodon to get to know it even better. In the first place, it is very interesting that the Megalodon is the largest shark of all those that currently exist in the world and of all those already extinct, with which, it can also be extracted that at the time it was the largest fish that existed. It is an extinct animal that is clearly a relative of the great white shark and many scholars consider it to be the ancestor of this species.

 

Como dato particularmente interesante, cabe señalar que después de mucha investigación, algunos expertos y científicos han podido estimar que su longevidad osciló entre 50 años y 100. Esto se ha encontrado observando las vértebras fosilizadas de los megalodones encontrados. . Más o menos como los troncos de los árboles, las vértebras de los tiburones tienen una especie de bandas que hacen referencia a los años de vida que tiene cada organismo. Así, es posible saber qué tan rápido crecieron este tipo de animales, y también su edad, ya que las bandas más anchas indican un mayor crecimiento.