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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.
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
Great white privilege?
Fwiw,
Neither my old undergrad biology prof, my late uncle nor I believe that the Megalodon is extinct.
Dr. Oliver said that there was NO reason for such an apex predator to die off, inasmuch as there were never many such creatures, the Megalodon was a “deep water shark” (thus few chances for human sightings) & there was/is not any shortage of suitable prey for them to eat.
Fwiw, shortly after VJ Day of WWII, the crew of USS CHAMPION (AM-314) caught an over 40 foot-long shark that looked like a White Shark except many TONS bigger.
(The largest known Great White was about 25 feet long.)
I’m told that there are official USN B&W photos of the shark on the deck of the CHAMPION. - Further, my uncle Wayne was the Acting COB of the CHAMPION & he said that he was present when the shark was winched aboard.
(There are also several verified reports of a whale carcass of Nicaragua with bites taken out of the carcass by a sea creature with a bite-radius well over 50” across.)
The famous “giant White Pointer” (As Great Whites are called in AUS/NZ) that was landed off Western Australia & measured at about 35 feet, in the 1870s was PROBABLY a Megalodon.
Note: For a long time, COELACANTH, “the living dinosaur fish”, were thought to have been extinct for MILLIONS of years, until one was caught off East Africa. - Turns out that the Coelacanths are not even rare in the waters of the South Atlantic.
(Local fish markets in the West Africa coastal area often have whole/fresh Coelcanths for sale.)
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