Megalodon fossils have been found on every continent except Antarctica, and in oceans worldwide, suggesting they lived everywhere. The megalodon (pictured in artist's impression), meaning 'big tooth', lived between 23 and 2.6 million years ago, during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs of the Cenozoic Era rexes wandering around today's beaches, ready to be snapped up like in the trailer for 'Meg 2'. Moreover, there is no room in modern marine ecosystems for a predator that large, as smaller species of sharks have taken over the ecological role they once played.Įqually, we can be fairly certain there are no residual T. There is no credible scientific evidence to suggest that the prehistoric sharks still exist in the oceans, and it is unlikely they would go unnoticed.

megalodon still exists in the deep ocean and poses a threat to humans. However, 'The Meg' film series is set in the present day, and the scientists discover that O. Therefore the two species could never have met, as there was a gap of about 70 million years between their respective time periods. It was one of the last dinosaur species to exist before the mass extinction event which wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs, as well as many other forms of life on Earth. rex lived between 68 and 66 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period, and roamed what is now the western side of North America. They are thought to have gone extinct due to a combination of factors, such as climate change and competition for food with other marine predators.Ī study from 2022 found that great white sharks out-competed them for food – despite being three times smaller. It diverged from the modern great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, during the Early Cretaceous period, between 145 million years and 100.5 million years ago. The megalodon, meaning 'big tooth', lived between 23 and 2.6 million years ago, during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs of the Cenozoic Era.

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