How Did Megalodon Really Hunt? The Fossil Evidence

No complete megalodon skeleton has ever been found. So how do we know how it hunted? From fossil teeth, bite marks on whale bones and a nursery in Panama, this film rebuilds the largest shark we know, and asks why it vanished. Everything here is tied to published evidence. Where the science is an estimate or still argued over, the film says so. CHAPTERS 0:00 Something in the dark 0:30 All it left behind 1:06 A body from a tooth 2:20 What it cost to be that big 3:19 The hunt 5:04 Did every bite kill? 5:59 The nursery 6:57 The rival: Livyatan 7:35 Why it vanished 8:39 What the rock still holds Which do you think tipped the balance: climate, vanishing prey, or a rival? Tell us in the comments. Next film: Livyatan, the giant sperm whale that shared megalodon's sea. ABOUT THE PICTURES Reconstructions of living animals and the pictures marked "Illustration" were made with AI image tools from the published descriptions; they are not photographs. The fossil photographs marked "Real fossil" and the museum jaws are from Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / public domain): Tomleetaiwan, Daderot, RealGatba, Ryan Schwark, Spotty11222, TomCatX / Lonfat. Narration is a synthetic voice. Maps show today's coastlines. SOURCES Royal Veterinary College, 3D model of megalodon: https://www.rvc.ac.uk/research/resear... Swansea University, megalodon weighed more than 61 tonnes: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/press-offic... Pimiento et al. 2010, megalodon nursery in Panama (PLOS ONE): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... Palaeontologia Electronica, healed bite on a Miocene whale bone: https://palaeo-electronica.org/conten... EurekAlert, tooth chemistry and megalodon's body temperature: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-relea... ScienceDaily, megalodon extinct earlier than thought: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases... Natural History Museum, London, megalodon: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/megalo... Smithsonian Magazine, great whites and megalodon's extinction: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... National Geographic, megalodon's extinction: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/sc... Shimada et al. 2022, megalodon body size (Historical Biology): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1... Florida Museum, white shark species profile: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/dis... #megalodon #prehistoric #paleontology