anyone have info on the megalodon shark or any sites about it.?

Answer 1

yep - they are fooking hoooooj !

probably 5 - 10 times bigger than a great white !

Seen a 6' (170m-ish) guy stood up in the skeletal jaws of one !

Answer 2

There was a programme on BBC3 a couple of Saturdays ago. It was about the 10 most dangerous prehistoric ocean creatures. Megalodon was about no. 2 or 3. You should try to get a copy of this programme (maybe on the BBC website) the CGI was amazing and it was a very informative programme. Basically Megalodon was a huge version of a Great White. Even looked the same.

Answer 3

The megalodon, Carcharodon megalodon, (from ancient Greek μεγας = "big" + 'οδους (genitive 'οδοντος) = "tooth") was a giant prehistoric shark that probably lived between about 16 to 1.6 million years ago, but recent studies have stated the shark may have gone extinct only 10,000 years ago. As far as we know, it was the largest predatory fish to have ever lived.

The megalodon is known principally from fossil teeth and a few fossilized vertebral centra. Like other modern sharks, the skeleton of megalodon was of cartilage and not bone, resulting in the poor skeletal fossil record. However, megalodon's large teeth have survived the ages. The teeth are in many ways similar to great white shark teeth and can measure up to 168 mm (6.61 in) long (maximum slant length).

Recent studies cited by Roesch (see external links below) suggest megalodon was a "close relative" of the great white shark. However, a growing number of researchers dispute this close great white shark–megalodon relationship, instead citing convergent evolution as the reason for the dental similarity. Nevertheless, it is extrapolations from the tooth size of megalodon to modern sharks that provide us with our conceptions about what this ancient superpredator was like.

The best-educated estimates of this creature's maximum size range from 12 to 16 m (40 to 52 ft) (previous much larger reconstructions of the shark's size, up to about 30 m (100 ft), are now generally considered inaccurate).[2] From the size of this shark, its weight is estimated as high as 60 tons, though 20 to 30 tons was more likely. Assuming similar metabolic-weight ratios as the great white shark, it is estimated that a large megalodon would need to eat about one-fiftieth of its weight of food on average per day. From our knowledge of the food chain during megalodon's existence, it is generally believed that this shark's diet consisted mostly of whales, along with large fish and primitive pinnipeds and sirenians

Answer 4

http://www.strangemag.com/megalodon.html
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/sharks/glossary/Megalodon.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalodon

There is a film Shark Attack 3: Megalodon that stars John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness from Torchwood).

Answer 5

good answer I P, just to add on to what you said, i watched a programme on the discovery channel where they stated that one of this sharks prey would possibly be the hump back whale which is why there is currently hump backs which have what looks like bites taken out of them but far to big for the great white to have done.
Also the tooth thing is they have thousands of teeth which are to large for the biggest recorded great white.
It is also meant to big more related to the tiger shark and not the great white

Answer 6

Site below is images of Megalodon

http://images.google.co.uk/images?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-37,GGGL:en&q=megalodon+sharks

Answer 7

Try "Rodney Fox" he's got a museum in Adelaide with the jaw bone from one of these, it's ferkin massive.