Megalodon AKA REALLY BIG Shark That Is Now Extinct

🦈Megalodon🦈

🦈The Megaladon is an extinct species of shark. Experts aren't sure when exactly it when it died off because the fossil records are incomplete. Most of the fossils go back to 15.9 million to 2.6 million years ago, so a REALLY long time ago it was alive. 

🦈Only 5 percent of the ocean has been explored, so the Megaladon could be hiding in the depths of the ocean. Experts say that there is only a 1 percent changed that the Meg is still alive because of the habitat that they once probably lived in. They believe that the  mega liked warmth. and that it hunted in the warm, shallow seas that covered much of the planet. Experts think that it may have gone extinct when these seas dried up, the ice age began and water was locked up at the poles. The Meg either starved or was frozen into extinction.

🦈Experts believe that the Meg's life span was between 20-40 years.

🦈It's name means big tooth and it is the largest shark documented.

🦈It's 276 serrated teeth were HUGE. 

🦈7 inches in length, which is almost three times longer than those of great white sharks. There teeth have been discovered on every continent except for Antarctica. Researchers have estimated that the Meg had a bite force of 40,131 pounds per square inch. 

🦈Compare that to the Nile crocodile, which has the strongest bite of any animal alive today. It's bite force is only 5,000 pounds per square inch.

🦈It is believed that the Meg swam at least 20 miles an hour.

🦈Scientists are in arguments about the  size of the Meg. Most scientists think the creature was somewhere between 60 and 80 feet long, there are some that think the Meg was much closer to the size of sharks we have today.