Theory on Megalodon size.

well shit, i think i was just owned XD 

I think we all know that animals are driven to gigantism through specific environmental conditions, such as large prey and plentiful oxygen, etc. These animals become highly specialized, and then become extinct when the food source they specialized in killing, or the environmental conditions change drastically. Nature gives, and it takes away.

Thanks for the links. One thing though, could you please not copy and paste someone else's post for a quote, we had another guy who did that and he pissed everyone off. So please don't quote us, just respond.

"well shit, i think i was just owned XD 

I think we all know that animals are driven to gigantism through specific environmental conditions, such as large prey and plentiful oxygen, etc. These animals become highly specialized, and then become extinct when the food source they specialized in killing, or the environmental conditions change drastically. Nature gives, and it takes away."

 Bigger is not always better, there are others examples. But megalodon was of course very big because it hunted very preys, in fact the biggest marine preys, whales, mysticetes or odontocetes...

New papers about megalodon are in preparation. In one of them, they'll establish its size variation depending the period. I've seen the preliminary graph, and at 12 millions years old, one individual is tipped at almost 70 tonnes (based on Gottfried weight regression using Shimada tooth estimates).

I don't know if or when the skeleton will be published, because the local politics are tricky with fossils. But it's very large I confirm.

ahhh yes, glad he's not around any more. And Kom, if you would, stop by every once in a while here at the JurassicWorld forum. A scientific view like yours is always welcome :)

Mr.Happy9097  : Got it !

Carnosaur, that's nice but I'm anything but a scientist. I'm just a long time interested into really big predators and I've spent years to perform research and found which one was the biggest. It appears by modern view, but no beyong all doubts as ever in science, that C. megalodon is the biggest. Its real maximum size is virtually unknown, but there is a vast consensus that it exceeded 16 m TL, likely reached 18 m TL and possibly tipped 20 m. As lamniforms sharks are heavily built, it must have been very heavy, even by conservative standarts.

I advise t listen the talks in the links I've given, the history of this family of sharks, with the ultimate forme being megalodon, is very epic and very interesting. Pliosaurs had already serious rivals during the Early Cretaceous...

Thanks for accepting the request. I don't have time to do research a lot because I have school and I have work to do on the farm, and recently, I've been getting my Jeep working. I've also been working on my fight series and most recent story.

@Kom, i'm starting to get into the large predators as well.Mainly the theropods though. My series i have going has some scientific truth to it, studying it really helps with that :P

I'm trying to give my fights some realism, so that why there aren't as many fatalities as I originally thought there would be. You can check out my fights, Fight 2 of Round 1 is on the recent topics lost right now.