Megalodon , does this ancient shark still exist?

Question

growin up to 40 ft. big, is this shark still alive? i see pictures online of it like this http://www.wmnh.com/carchs.jpg & those r the jaws! & i see that just 1 tooth is bigger then a grown mans hand! SO IS IT STILL ALIVE???

Answer 1

Megalodon was an ancient shark, living between 25-1.6 million years ago; it is extinct. It may have been 40 feet (12 m) long or more. Only fossilized teeth have been found.

Answer 2

I do remember the deep sea dives where they discovered all sorts of alien lifeforms......okay okay alien to you and me on the surface sunlit world. One of the things that was videographed was a giant mountain of a shark. I do not believe it was characterized as a Megalodon, but big sharks do still exist in the deep deep sea. (ie Deep trenches)

Answer 3

No the closest we have today is the whale shark that does not eat in the same way the mealodon did.

Answer 4

While most mainstream experts contend that available evidence suggests that the megalodon is extinct, the idea of a relict population seems to have seized the public imagination, but evidence supporting such ideas is generally seen as both scanty and ambiguous.

Megalodon teeth have been discovered that some argue date as recently as 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. This claim is based on the discovery of two teeth by the HMS Challenger scientific expedition (these teeth were dated by estimating the amount of time it took for manganese to accumulate on them, although it is quite possible the teeth were fossilized before being encrusted).

Others have countered that these recent estimates for these teeth are inaccurate, and "claims of post-Pliocene C. megalodon ... are erroneous", being based on outdated testing and methodology [3]. Roesch and others also note that megalodons were probably coastal sharks, and that deep-sea survival is extremely unlikely.

Some relatively recent reports of large shark-like creatures have been interpreted as surviving megalodons, but such reports are usually considered misidentification of basking sharks, whale sharks or other large creatures. One well-known example was reported by writer Zane Grey. It is possible, but unlikely, that some of these sightings might be due to abnormally large great white sharks. One famed example was retold by Australian naturalist David Stead. Though widely circulated, this account is generally regarded as of little value, because most of the claimants are anonymous:

In the year 1918 I recorded the sensation that had been caused among the "outside" crayfish men at Port Stephens, when, for several days, they refused to go to sea to their regular fishing grounds in the vicinity of Broughton Island. The men had been at work on the fishing grounds — which lie in deep water — when an immense shark of almost unbelievable proportions put in an appearance, lifting pot after pot containing many crayfishes, and taking, as the men said, "pots, mooring lines and all". These crayfish pots, it should be mentioned, were about 3 feet 6 inches [1.06 m] in diameter and frequently contained from two to three dozen good-sized crayfish each weighing several pounds. The men were all unanimous that this shark was something the like of which they had never dreamed of. In company with the local Fisheries Inspector I questioned many of the men very closely and they all agreed as to the gigantic stature of the beast. But the lengths they gave were, on the whole, absurd. I mention them, however, as an indication of the state of mind which this unusual giant had thrown them into. And bear in mind that these were men who were used to the sea and all sorts of weather, and all sorts of sharks as well. One of the crew said the shark was "three hundred feet [90 m] long at least"! Others said it was as long as the wharf on which we stood – about 115 feet [35 m]! They affirmed that the water "boiled" over a large space when the fish swam past. They were all familiar with whales, which they had often seen passing at sea, but this was a vast shark. They had seen its terrible head which was "at least as long as the roof on the wharf shed at Nelson Bay." Impossible, of course! But these were prosaic and rather stolid men, not given to 'fish stories' nor even to talking about their catches. Further, they knew that the person they were talking to (myself) had heard all the fish stories years before! One of the things that impressed me was that they all agreed as to the ghostly whitish colour of the vast fish. The local Fisheries Inspector of the time, Mr Paton, agreed with me that it must have been something really gigantic to put these experienced men into such a state of fear and panic.

Answer 5

it surely isnt alive, because it hasnt been proven to exist by any recent remains of photographs. BUT, there is a possibility that Megladodon still exist, however the chances of this are less than 1%

Answer 6

No, it's extinct. The closest living thing would be the toothless whale-shark.

Answer 7

No, it died out long, long ago. However, The Great White is related to it, but only about 1/3 the size.

Answer 8

Who can say? Take the case of the wide squid. Specimens were got here upon over 60 feet in length, with eyes as enormous as garbage can lids. all of us comprehend they exist in consumer-friendly words because they wash up on a sea coast each so oftentimes, yet no one has ever considered one living contained in the wild. And, we do not comprehend if those got here upon are adults. per chance those sea creatures were the impetus behind the thoughts of the sea serpents and sea monsters. area isn't the basically accurate frontier. The inner maximum ocean trenches, that are an extremely tremendous portion of the planet as an total, have by no ability been visited. There are truly species there unknown to well-known technological information. numerous new species were got here upon on marine expeditions for that objective besides as those got here upon as an accent to different exploration, alongside with contained in the hunt for the "tremendous." no longer in the previous, a psilocanthe (spelled incorrect i'm particular) become got here upon alive and nicely even as in the previous keen to were extinct for a minimum of 50,000 to over 2 hundred,000 years. Does the megalodon nonetheless exist? The jury continues to be out on that one, and could be for extremely a even as I could imagine.