Intro on the Megalodon

The Megalodon or Carcharocles Megalodon, a sea creature that had strike fear in many other creatures many million years ago. The Megalodon was the apex predator of its time which meant that the Megalodon was at the top of the food chain and did not have predators of its own. Its was likely the largest and most powerful macro-predatory fish that ever lived. Fossil remains of C. megalodon indicate that it may have approached a maximum of around 20.3 metres (67 ft) in total length. That is bigger than a bus!!! Scientists suggest that C. megalodon looked like a stockier version of the great white shark. Like all sharks, the megalodon skeleton was formed of cartilage rather than bone; this results in mostly poorly preserved fossil specimens, causing scientists to not exactly know what it looked like. The most common fossils of Megalodon are its teeth, which are very similar to the teeth of the great white shark, but the Megalodon had more robust teeth. Shockingly, the Megalodon's teeth can grow up to 7.1 inches long and are the largest among all the species of sharks. This shows that the Megalodon is gigantic. In 2008, a team of scientists conducted an experiment to determine the bite force of Megalodon. The results shows that it had one of the most powerful bites in history. Even at 15m long ( not its maximum length ), it was able to exert a force of 108,514 newtons or 24,000 pound-force. A person would be crushed into nothing by this sheer weight, imagine yourself being crushed under this weight. But when the Megalodon is at its maximum length, it could exerted a bite force estimated at 182,201 newtons (N)[23] or 41,000 pound-force. Megalodon's bite force, at maximum estimated size, is over 10 times greater than that of the great white shark and 5 times greater than that of T. rex.