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Sharks Anonymous
hey /an/
I was just wondering if you guys believe that megalodon still exists?
>> Anonymous
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That'd be pretty fucking awesome if it did. Could a giant shark plausibly live in the deep ocean? Or would the pressure be too much?
>> Anonymous
The ocean is pretty fucking big. It wouldn't surprise me.
>> Anonymous
Probably not.

Skyscraper-sized squids, however...
>> Anonymous
>>289053
Whales go down to excessive depths so theoretically a huge shark could too.

Also on that show MonsterQuest on the History channel, they sent a camera down 1000ft on a Humboldt squid and captured a few frames of a squid that they estimated to be either A) 60ft long if another Humboldt squid or B) 108ft long if a Giant squid (this is also coincidentally how large a blue whale is, the largest creature on the planet OR IS IT?).
>> Anonymous
A giant shark could survive deep in the ocean (not at the deepest parts I think, but somewhere in the middle, like 1000ft down or something). The bigger the shark, the deeper it can go. The main question is, if the shark never comes to the surface (hence why we have not discovered it), is there enough prey to sustain a population of these sharks down there. OR because of the high pressure and low temperature, does it become like the Greenland shark who just kind of wafts through the water on low-energy, occasionally eating something that getes in it's way.
>> Demyx's Landmaster !!vjyCRKGc15d
If Megalodon still exists, it's probably down in the deep parts of the ocean and changed so much it may not be Meg anymore, being adapted to the cold dark reaches.

I agree with>>289061, the shark would most likely have become cold-blooded and adapted to be slow most of the time, only moving quickly to attack. They have video of a Pacific sleeper shark in one of Japan's bays that was over 25 feet in length.

>>289060
They've discovered evidence of squid far larger than that by comparing the sucker marks on sperm whales with specimens of Archetuthis. A squid 23 feet long has suckers the diameter of a quarter.

Some of the marks on whales have measured at 18.5" in diameter.
>> Anonymous
<3 this thread.

The thought of gigantic, prehistoric things existing far beneath the ocean's surface is so fascinating.
>> Anonymous
It lives in the bermuda triangle!
>> Anonymous
IF such a creature exists, it must have adapted to colder temperatures to find prey.

The whales it preyed upon adapted to colder temperatures quickly and traveled north and south,towards the poles. Megalodon could not adapt, and was forced to remain in the tropics. Deprived of it's prey, it was starved into extinction. Or was it?

Anything in the ocean depths now is a step up from Megalodon
>> Anonymous
perhaps it only comes up at night?

it's hard as shit i see anything in to ocean without light so maybe that's why we haven't seen ti.
>> Anonymous
The megalodon wouldn't be able to survive in the cold, food-poor deep depths. It's a warm water creature that needs A LOT of big food.