The Why and How of the Megalodon Extinction (What Killed the Giant Shark)
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- Опубликовано: 5 май 2021
- How did one of the largest apex predators on planet Earth go extinct? Check out today's new epic video where we explain how the Megalodon actually died off. What killed off this giant shark for good? Find out in today's video as we dive deep into the ocean to find out!
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*Megaladon has left the chat*
Whales: That's a relief.
*Giant Squid has entered the chat.*
Whales: *Intense sweating*
sorry, but whales eat squid
How would you know if they were sweating?🐳🤔
@@themeanestkitten That's why the ocean taste salty.🙃
Everywhere I go,I see his face
dedik purwanto the ocean is salty because whales release a lot of “white stuff” when mating with a female (don’t treat that as a fact I was joking)
Imagine we found a megalodon perfectly frozen in ice
Keep imagining
Don't jinx it man we all know the story of the titanic
Sheesh
Illuminati : *Delete This*
*Leonardo Sadewa was never seen again*
i remember back when i was in grade 1, we had to do this project where we chose an animal, did resaerch on it, and make a poster about it. i chose a megaladon, and i was the most enthuseastic about this project out of the whole class. i spent a long time doing reaserch, and since it was a poster we also got to draw a picture, so i drew proberly the trashiest picture ever, but i was proud of it at the time.
Dfbit
Pinoy?
Okay
Bro I do not remember making this comment 💀
everyone else: Megaladon is big, heartless, and terrifying
Infographics Show: *animates shark as cute and fat*
my father used to get past this fish when he used to swim to go to school
*Hmmm I sense underrated comment*
LeL
really? my father rode this fish before
Haha :/
Should someone else whoosh him?
I love how they animated the Meg as a cute fish and not one of the biggest animals ever.
Fun fact, whales including blue whales are the true biggest animals on Earth, Megalodon was proven to be about 52 feet long at most, not 60 feet or more. It's just some useful and interesting information I'm spreading here.
@@Dylan-Hooton thanks. I was just commenting on the irony of the animation with the actual dimensions of a meg and didn’t know how to phrase it. But yeah...thanks for the facts.
Right lol the animation is to cute
This big guy, belongs to the class of "elasmobranch".🤓🦈
Blue Whale & Livyatan & Leedsichthys & Mosasaurus Is Bigger Than Megalodon
what if the megalodon evolved to be smaller and was actually a named species of present-day shark?
Smart.
That’s an interesting idea, but if I remember correctly, there are no living sharks that belonged to the same genus as the megalodon. I’m not sure if any living genus of shark is even close. Current research shows that not just the Meg, but the meg’s whole family is gone.
@@eggcosplays7924 great white that’s pretty close right
@@junkie9998 nah. It’s almost like how Hyenas and dogs have similarities, but no kind of relation
Megalodons and modern day sharks are not the same thing i cant really explain it because im not a pro at this kind of stuff but just know if megalodons did evolv eintk something else we would know they used to be megalodons
This video sorta mentioned it but if the megalodon was so huge, it would’ve needed a lot more food than smaller species, with the lessening of their prey in general they would’ve had a hard time eating enough to supply their body thus dying
Not as huge as your mom
Yep every country on the planet takes out tons and tons daily of fish I promise you the human appetite for exceeds any megalodons the lack of food argument is a very weak one people who live on the coast never even see a whale yet we know they're there and they have to come to the surface yet millions of people still do not see them when they live right on the coastline
I personally believe that is why
The background music makes me feel like I'm in a tornado drill at school.
It sounds horrible 😅
100% agree! Had to stop the video as the music started giving me some pretty bad anxiety.
@@Ruckus6112 me too lol
Someone knows the name of the soundtrack?
it kinda suits the scariness and depth of evolution and earth. theyd play this type of music in natural history musuems haha
"But studies suggest that on average, a female meg-"
Me: Shut up, Meg.
😂
Lol
I just couldn't help myself 🤦🏾♀️😂
Same here 😂
You funny funny 😂😂😂
To whoever does research for The Infographics Show: BE CAREFUL! You mistakenly said the largest Great White was 36 ft. Though there have been measurements, they are questionable. The top confirmed size a Great White can get is 20ft. The 36ft supposed White may actually of been a case of mistaken identity, such as a Basking shark.
Its not that big of a deal honestly
I'm laughing so hard 20 ft that's all they get they could never get bigger than 20 ft never and as we all know scientists are absolutely correct in all matters no matter what the subject they know more than anybody in the whole wide world now I'm rolling in the aisles. Deep down inside every scientist knows that a Megalodon exists but they just like watching people get eaten by sharks they find it entertaining. And since they're so convinced there's not enough food they don't want the public to be deterred from going in the water how are they going to feed their pet megalodons. Don't live forever but what about the jellyfish studies where we know that they live forever. Anytime Sciences involved they contradict themselves day in and day out it's hilarious especially the blind people who followed them and hang on their every word like it's gospel. Come on babe what you going to believe your own eyes or something a scientist told you.
@@panther7865 they are just giving information because in science sharing information always helps get us 1 step closer to a better explanation and yes it may not be a big deal but it still helps and I doesn't hurt a thing
Glad somebody said it 😂
I’m surprised the narrator didn’t question it, when tf has there ever been a 36 ft white pointer 😂 that would be beyond massive for a shark. It would literally have them hunting whales again if they were that big😂
Meg seeing Great White
Meg: Who are you?
Great White: I am you but built to survive this new environment
Meg: *sad noises*
Lol,
Also I don’t want to be THAT GUY but fyi, megalodons are closer to Mako sharks
That literally broke my heart when you see the polar bear saying well I guess it’s my time to say goodbye😭😭😭
They are moving south and appear to be coping with the new environment. Also there's been a fair few cases of polar bears breeding with Grizzly bears which creates a type of bear that can survive fur south. Yes it'll be awful if/when we lose the polar bear but maybe just maybe their genes will live on in the new breed of bear.
I don’t like democrats but hopefully if they’re in power of the US they can help with climate change but it’ll take the whole world to stop it and I rly hope they do and it’s certainly possible.
@@itarry4 I was gonna say basically the same thing. I just recently watched a show about how the grizzly and polar bears are interbreeding. The grizzly/polar hybrid is freaking huge.
@@DD-mj3yf I don’t like politicians generally, but the democrats seem like the only option for the US.
@@springbok4015 100% I hate politics and believe republicans are probably slightly better as a whole and for the economy of the US but I love animals and really want climate change to end so I’m torn. Ig that’s why I’m an independent tho
Me: Oh no! A giant shark!!
Megalodon: I'm looking for a transporter ...
Lol
@@TrenchCoatGang lOl
Lol
Understand that reference
Dont think meg would fit in an Audi s6, may need an A8
Everybody gangsta until a scientist discovers a mosquito with megs blood and a billionaire opens a Megs park
The thumbnails vs the actual thing's quality is on par with that of EA.
One day, after 20 million years of roaming the ocean, the last Megladon that would ever live closed its eyes for the last time :.(
20 million years ago? They went extinct 2.6 million years ago.
@@achimpanzee9210 he said after
@@Dee-gu5up just realized that lol
@@achimpanzee9210 They roamed the ocean for 20 million years, hence, '...after 20 million years of roaming the ocean...'
Thank god
it would be so weird to just go swimming and seeing a gigantic fin coming at you
Imagine
Dr squid
It can happen in brazil
I think you mean terrifying, not weird.
Doof ward
imagine if they just had huge jaws and a small body😂
Actually, they looked more like a blimp rather than a bigger great white!
This RUclips Channel-is so great 👍 very cool how they do this kind of detailed videos
What if..... megladon wasn't huge, just merely had huge mouths? 😯
Maybe But They Would Probably Need The Body Of A Snake like they would need a body that extends when they eat animals the problem with having big mouth and a small body is it wont be able to eat giant animals unless the extending body is there so it cant have a big mouth
Researchers have got backbone of meglodon too and it is very huge
The megamouth Shark is rather like that.
90% mouth 10% body😂
And were piranha size body
Soul: *gets born as a megalodon*
The rest of the food chain: aaaaaa f*ck
Shark man😃
Pods of orcas: ok
Humans-allow us to introduce ourselves
Yep the food chain must of gotten ruined with the megaldons
A Great Informative Video on the megladon at least there's fossils etc, and movies to.
this video is legit teaching me more about the earth than my school does this ONE video is educating me more than 1 year of school...
Megaladon ramen was quite the delicacy I must say. Sadly the demand was too high..
Nice profile.
@@Dtzeo503 u to
The Chinese hunted the Megalodon to extinction.
To make aphrodisiacs for fat, sweaty businessmen.
@@Reaalreelz thx
@@phoenixzappa7366
There were no fat sweaty businessmen 20 million years ago. There were no Chinese people then either. Humans have only existed for around 7 million years.
I’d like to think that they where so big that they wouldn’t waste time on our tiny human bodies 😥😰
Me too!
well they might’ve attacked bigger boats
You’d think that. Remember, even Great Whites will eat Shrimp...
They would eat a group of us for a decent snack.
I mean, not if they were starving °-°
this is actually the best video for the ones who have telasofophia, animations and cartoons are always the best
This is why I won’t go more than ten feet away from someone in the shore of the ocean. Not just because that they could still be alive, but because of all of the other creepy stuff in there.
“But are they truly extinct?”
Me: Yes they are! And I’m never swimming in the ocean again to find out!! 😳😳😳
*Are you sure about that* ?
@Raeka Frances Apego I was talkin' to the chick who's goin' to be my dinner when she takes a dip into the water
@Raeka Frances Apego You know crocodiles 🐊 would still get you plus Bull sharks 🦈 would try their luck
@Raeka Frances Apego bro it was a joke his name is megalodon
Be assured that they are definitely very dead. ^^
Imagine being so op Earth had to nerf your oxygen intake
EDIT: Thanks for the 1k likes everyone
Imagine being so op Earth had to introduce a virus to nerf your existence.
@@xia0b0iix That's not nerf that's banning
Brb, reading the patch notes.
Dev's in a nutshell:
😂😂 btw thanks for 115 now lets reach 120 pls 🙏🙏🙏🙏😢😢😢😢🥺🥺🥺
Megalodon has extincted. However, there are still some giant sharks alive in today's ocean.
This is the first time I felt bad for a giant monster.
Ikr
Shark*
The wail in the backyard is so scary and annoying😂
Just annoying
It becomes FAR less intrusive at 1.25x speed though
Weird, right??
Leviathan can't be dismissed in the story of the demise of megalodon. While a single leviathan might fall to megalodon, remember: whales swim in pods or packs. The bigger brain and pack behavior would render leviathan a formidable adversary for diminishing resources in a changing ocean.
Orcas showed up right around the same time it vanished.
You know they do not exist right ?
They disappeared around the same time
Nope, Megodons managed to outlive Livyatans.
@@gabrielteixeira6152 Not really, Megalodons managed to outlive Livyatans.
The music is so elite. The flute sounds like the guy who did the titanic parody
This guy literally rolls out of bed and starts audio recording😂☺️
Just an FYI the largest confirmed great white was 21 feet.the 36 foot great white shark turned out to be a misidentified basking shark
Agreed
Exactly.
So the biggest shark right now was a basking shark and not a great white?
@@utu_be Basically.
He’s debunking the article used as so called “proof” of the Megalodon’s existence, because it was actually just a Basking shark, as stated in the exact article.
@@utu_be The biggest shark in the world right now is the Whale Shark which can get as large as 40 feet.
Okay but this videos music is the apex of all infographics music
I love that animation style! That meg looked so shocked when he saw the dead fish on his plate...
Also I find megalodons so interesting and I kind of wish they were still alive (as long as nobody made me swim in the ocean)
Megalodon truthers want to believe that the prehistoric gigantic shark is going out of its way to stay hidden. Like literally, zero impact so that we'd never find solid proof.
Megalodon: "Shhh. Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm staying hidden"
Sneak 100
It's like the alien theory.
Why would aliens care to hide their arrival to Earth?
*very
@De Corius TV that’s what i’m saying, you can’t be 100% anything is actually extinct
@De Corius TV the thing is 20% of the oceans have been mapped and there are somethings called sonars and satellites that they use to scan the ocean. The other 80% of the ocean is just dead space where a lot of things can’t survive. The megalodon was a warm water shark, its impossible for it be somewhere in the deep ocean because it would die from the cold water. If it still existed, it wouldn’t hide itself and we would’ve found it a while ago. If it evolved into something else then it wouldn’t be a megalodon anymore.
0:07 one second later.
wow I'm inside a megaladon. perfect time for an adventure
3:47
Yeah right, i'd like to see you try to survive rows of razor sharp shark teeth
@@hathatsfunny1911 if I did my mom would be so proud
@@hathatsfunny1911 my dad had to go inside a shark's mouth to go to school
The editing is so good
The soundtrack was 🔥
Fr
Fr
*South America exists*
Megalodon: “It’s REEAL Different Out Here!”
Wat about Florida
@@theretarbconsultant5469 megalodon is afraid to go there because of Florida man
Yeah the sharks like we’re is all the white chicks at there is only black chicks in the water
Finally i need this, i have been waiting for 4 years for this
Great video, love it. The only thing was, that background music was slightly distracting. It was cool music, just that underwater scream sounding sample was distracting to me. Could be just me...
Dont you have adhd?
@Killarrex you don’t have adhd?
It’s 5am and I just heard my parents get up while I’m over here chillin and watching your vids💀
simple explanation: sea life evolved to the point that the megladon had no food they could catch, and anything it could catch would not be enough to satisfy its hunger
can you do more about prehistoric animals?
@chris mclaughlin agreed
I mean although this isn’t that reliable of a data source I still think it’s more entertaining and fun to watch it while still gaining data/intel on something even if it’s not as reliable as reading a documentation
@@hellothere3071
Infographics gets a lot of it's information wrong, and represents certain objects wrong, and misspells words constantly, and will revise a video but not fix the typos, and all sorts of stuff. They get a lot of stuff wrong so if you want to learn more find a better source. But to be fair, it's presented in a fun and interesting way.
@@wiseferret4745 yeah
@@resurrectedhelicoprion kurzgesagt? I watch them all the time
Why does the music have to sound like it wants me to have a panic attack
I don't wanna encourage a 'Jurassic Park' situation but I'm sure many of us watching this would love to Megalodons come back. But only a few 😂
Basically, with sufficient resources, organisms tend to keep evolving larger. If resources are insufficient this resets or reverses.
Great point.
The biggest herbivore gets the most grazing territory. The larger predator keeps the meal.
The drawback is that both, due to their size, need more calories to sustain life.
Idk what half these words mean but okay 👍👌🎉
Key word is "tend", sharks have actually been getting smaller and another good example of something that involves larger are baleen whales because Megalodon had a super large effect on how small they were.
Forget the megalodon, I wanna hear more about this 36 FOOT LONG GREAT WHITE?
There is no credible evidence for such a large white shark to date.
@@miniscool5613 =(
Apparently, it's been disproved, and it was something caught like over a 100 years ago, so not much credibility. There have been cases of them reaching about 20 ft though.
@@omniverse7377 aww
A 36 foot great white has never been recorded, 20 foot has been though, this video is actually very scientifically inaccurate. It states that the megalodons dorsal fin was the size of a boat which is false as the megalodons dorsal fin attained a estimated height of 1.6 meters.
The Livyatan Whale that lived around the same time as the Megladon and fed on the same prey as the Megladon. Went Extinct around the same time.
"Could there be a gigantic 60 ft shark"
Me: "The largest one is 114 ft"
Where'd you get that from? Only blue whales get to that size
@@notlightbeam4889 yes lol
10 millions years from now, all the people will be wishing for a regular sized Great White. Because all the sharks are the size of a salmon 😅
"theres always a bigger fish"
megalodon: i think NOT
Hi this is so cool Thanks for making us know how
I love the music in this.
Why the Godzilla music lol 😂
Doest godzilla his theme sound different
@Joehan Samuel Walker not the exact Godzilla one but I've heard this I feel in one of the movies
Imagine skydiving in the ocean and seeing a kraken and megalodon fighting but it's to late to get away because you already jumped.😂
English please
@@johnfkennedy3583 😧
English
@@scp-999ticklemnstr8 english pls stop saying ber bee bll
ahaha
great video!
The megalondons bones can't be found because they disintegrated while we were almost to be alive
Actually it's bc they didn't have bones. Sharks have cartilaginous skeletons and they only have bones in their jaws
Well they don’t exactly have bones, but we can find their skulls and teeth- and then recreate the rest of the skeleton.
We can always date those, and it always estimates that it at least died out three million years ago.
This is the second Megaladon video desperately ensuring me that they went extinct. I'm starting to smell a conspiracy. Not going swimming anytime soon.
You joking or?
@@abandonedhouseshark93 You think prehistoric sharks are a joke?
@@thisguy7976 No I just don't think one thats 50-60 ft, Mesopelagic, preyed on whales, and had a body temp high enough to make toast wouldn't still be alive in our oceans today. But the people who go pump out the same excuses why megalodon would still exist are a joke however.
@@abandonedhouseshark93 that's what big aquarium wants you to think
Oh they definitely went extinct. People just want them to be alive.
I don't want to live in a time where I have to tell my kids about the long dead "Polar Bear".
It's curious to think what our oceans and fishing and cruises and all around sea commerce would look like if megladons were roaming our oceans still.
OK the shark probably didn't die from getting killed by a bigger creature it probably died because of how big and how much food it needs to survive
That strange sonar/wail sound-effect that played throughout the video was really unsettling for some reason.
4:57 *I felt that in my heart when reading the polar bears message*
Congrats on 10 mil
The music is surprisingly dramatic for a guy talking about a shark.
When is Earth going to release the next land update so we can get some new species?
I love how the megaladon is the biggest, scariest creature (probably) to ever live and The Infographics show is just like ‘Happy Shark 🦈 🥹’ graphic
Amazing enough. I'm early
I thought the megalodon evolved onto land becoming some kind of Land shark and died out from an ice age
That comment was a joke lol
king shark hasent been speaking since this dropped
Megalodon stopped being of the Carcharocles genus ages ago. Current understanding is that it resides in the Otodus genera of extinct, very large sharks. Otodus Megalodon.
The alleged 36ft. specimen mentioned in this video was debunked in 1970 by J.E. Reynolds by measuring the jaws it was proven the giant caught in the 1870’s was actually about 17 feet in length, The Port Fairy Giant was just a big fish story instead of a tale of a sea monster.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who caught this. The biggest actual recorded specimens were around 21-23 feet long.
I love that background music! What is it called please?
It took me 12 minutes to realize that screech was from the video 😭😭😭😭
Also the Livyatan whale also hunted the same prey as the meg. Orcas also started coming into the scene and hunted the same prey as Meg in pods.
Orcas hunted large cetaceans recently. 3 million years ago orcas were about the same size as pygmy killer whales. They were a lot smaller, same for gws
Great Whites as well.
Orcas, Livyatan, and Great Whites told the blimp to basically flip off hUsbejd
Nah, killer whales weren't really much of thing as they are now back then. They were super small, not as smart. And they lived in different places. Tired of people saying killer whales could prey on megalodon when they weren't even in the same oceans nor where they large enough. They'd get pulverized back then.
@@orlandoletaviouse4638 I never said they preyed on Megalodon’s.
But rather they were able to outclass them in competition and outlive them.
Scientists: Global Warming!
Megladon: I'm back!
Megalodon in intro: your free trial of life has ended
I love how cute the megaladon is animated because I have Thalassophobia (fear of deep water) but it's more a fear of giant creature like the Megaladon or the Kraken lurking in the deep water.
Watching this with headphones on, bruh the background music 😂
Time to rewatch it xD
SO ANNOYING XD
the music has me thinking im watchin a horror scene😭😭😭
Imagine if the megaladon was still alive and on youtube you'd see a bunch of videos: "What to do if you see A MEGALADON SHARK at sea!"/ "How to protect yourself against a MEGALADON!"
Dude the megalodon should've just reported the other sharks for teaming
you wonder how it went extinct I wonder how it came to be, like did a shark wake up one day and say I'm about to just keep growing
Actually, a megladon wake up one day and said i’m about to just keep shrinking
It likely did to target the bigger prey such as whales, but once those disappeared, it just got clapped by everything else such as orcas, livyatan’s, and great whites.
Amazing animation and narration..!! Thank you for the update, The Infographics Show..!!
I like the wild screams in the backround
Polar bear: i guess its time to say goodbye
Lol that got me XD
One is stuck playing the impassioned protagonist in one’s Subjective Narrative of Self🎈
When I was that polar bear saying"Well, I geuss it's time to day goodbye." I got so sad and made me hate being human
Yes, sharks are ectothermic as mentioned in the video, but wouldn't Megalodon's large size in and of itself create a gigantothermy effect? Allowing it to venture into cooler waters?
Regardless many Great Whites, despite being smaller, still don't venture far into cold waters.
U know wht infographics show is really entertaining and interesting. Its filled with either education or other entertainment series like this. Btw there's another marine animal in the ocean that can fight or dominate over the Megalodon. That marine creature is Livyatan whale. Its also said that it hunted Megalodon as food. The Livyatan whale is also very deadly it also has razor sharp, serrated and tough teeth. Its 80-100 feet long. It can defeat the Meg. Livyatan also has a tough body so hard for the Meg to injury it.
Enter: the bloop!
To the person reading this ur adorable and cute stay safe 💓
i love how the shark had a smile in the begining xD
This shows that no matter how big something is, planet earth is the strongest
nobody:
the music: OooOooOoOoOoO