Posted on 02/14/2019 1:04:05 PM PST by EveningStar
Taking a dip in the ocean and coming face to face with a predator of the deep would be enough to scare anyone. Modern day great white sharks are intimidating creatures, but they wouldn’t have held a candle to the ancient super-sized beast known as megalodon.
The long-extinct shark has been the subject of many research efforts in the past, with scientists attempting to determine when and where it lived, and perhaps even figure out why it’s no longer around. Now, new fossil evidence suggests that the colossal creature actually died off quite a bit earlier than was originally thought, and great white sharks might have been to blame.
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I hate when Great White Sharks push me to extinction.
Great white shark ate Megalodon’s lunch.
Gosh, I hate it when that happens.
Racist sharks ... in MAGA hats ...
2.6 to 3.6 million years ago? Nancy Pelosi was just a junior congresswoman but it’s still not really so long ago.
“Farewell and adieu to my dear Spanish Lady”
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat!”
“You drink to my leg, and I’ll drink to your leg.”
This is not science. This is fantasy and story telling.
Even the Great Whites are on someone else’s menus...Orcas like Great Whites for lunch!
I suspect you can come up with some images associated with ‘Great Whites’, so I’ll leave that part up to you.
They are too big for the sharknados to lift.
LOOK. It’s Michelle Obama at a buffet!
I thought she was out telling everybody about her green deal.
OUTSTANDING!
An article in USA Today noted the appearance of a pacu fish in Tuscon’s Silverbell Lake. The fisherman who reported the sighting (and biting) had no idea what he was looking at, but knew that the fish was trying to bite him and that the fish had a very big set of human-like teeth.
I think almost anyone would have freaked out at the sight, unless the fish was in its native habitat.
It was a spokesperson from the Arizona Game and Fish Department in Tucson who identified the fish as a pacu, a native of the Amazonian rivers and a relative of the famous, and deadly, piranha. He said that the fish had likely been a pet that outgrew its tank so the owners brought it to the lake where it could survive.
Like other pet pacus that have been found away from their native waters in lakes and rivers from Russia, to Europe, to North America, pacus might survive for awhile in cold waters, but the local fish probably won’t. If the pacu doesn’t have vegetation to munch on, it will eat what is available, endangering the natural fish species in those waters.
As for “human” teeth, the notion is anthropomorphic. In fact, according to evolutionary biologists, fish had specialized dentition long before humans did. So, perhaps we should say humans have fish teeth!
As for humans catching an unwitting pacu, it has been done, but it’s more likely that the pacu will catch you. In other words, it’s advisable not to even try to catch one, but instead you should call your local fish and game department.
http://petslady.com/article/pacu-fish-coming-lake-near-you-big-human-teeth
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