/sci/ - Science & Math

No. There's not enough sea life left to support a predator of that size.

Yes, I bet they're all asleep on the bottom of the Marianas trench trying to conserve energy.

What? Theres enough sea life to support whole economies, im sure theres enough for guppy or whatever megladon is.

>is it possible fairies exist and we just have one? a bunch of the earth is still unexplored you know

>>1472510
is it possible that god could still be around we just haven't seen one. alot of bullshit is still unexplored you know.

no, they went extinct because they overate. probably even less food in ocean today. plus IT WENT EXTINCT

WENT EXTINCT
>>extinct

Well considering giant squids and EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME we go to the bottom of the ocean we find new species and shit, why not? Megladon would most likely not still be around but maybe something down the line equally large and shit of the evolutionary chain could exist.

>>1472510
>compares imaginary things to real animals that actually existed

You're not being very scientific. GET OUT

Maybe, but not very likely. Here have a colossal squid.

>>1472522

>>1472466
No, but its relatives are still alive and kicking. So in a way it is still alive.

Well, there's the coelcanth. People had thought lobe-finned fish have been extinct for a hundred million years, and then they found one a couple of decades ago. So it's feasible that a megalodon could also exist. But it's ridiculously improbable.

>>1472541
lol, nice words, fag, check out my picture of a coelacanth @ >>1472535

>>1472525

No, its impossible. If something that large lived down there it doesnt make sense for it to stay down there ALL THE TIME. It would move up to shallower waters and I know this because you can be sure it needs to eat on fish higher up the food chain. these higher foodchain fish dont live in the deep

>>1472541
wrong. there are other lobe finned fish that we have always known about.

coelacanth is a type of lobe finned fish.

If coelacanths and the almost equally old frilled sharks are still around maybe a megladon could still exist.

>>1472553
Perhaps it eats whale carcasses.

Bitches don't know about my Megamouth that wasn't discovered until 1976.

>>1472596
Neat.

>>1472553
We don't know what direction evolution would have taken so you can't say that. Even if there's still a slight chance, who knows?

>>1472596

>>1472572

Something that sized cannot sustain itself on scavenging alone. the megalodon went extinct because evolution overshot and made itself too big. so big that it went extinct because it drained the oceans of food and went mass extinct from starvation it caused itself. it happens frequently to topline predators. so its dead. its history is gone. its evolutionary timeline ended millions year ago.

i love the megalodon. baddest fucking thing the earth ever produced

>>1472618
I freaking googled for that, could not find. I guess bender futurama neat camera was a little too broad for GIS.

For every previously thought extinct species which was discovered to be extant there are billions which were accurately classified as extinct. Showing some of these mistakes doesn't suggest any other given animal is not really extinct.

Technically sure a megladon could still be around, it is statistically impossible but we can't prove a negative.

>>1472619
>its evolutionary timeline ended millions year ago.

lolwut

We have sharks today, dumbass.

>>1472628
>extant
Adult detected.

>>1472628

That's wrong. Technically, a megalodon could not still be around. Let me rephrase it: technically, the largest predator the planet earth has ever seen could not still be around tens of millions of year later. Technically, this will not be possible.

>>1472659
I see you trolling.

>>1472661

I see you being a faggot. Might be a megalodons in the seas? Impossible.

/thread

>>1472659

bitches dont know about having babies

>>1472671
but not impossible for the reasons everyone else is talking about

Somehow veryone seems to be under the impression that the megalodon shark ate itself to extinction. It's really quite simple.

>megalodon sharks eat whales
>tropical whales gradually died out
>world got colder, shark cannot go into higher latitudes
>no food, snuffed it

>>1472466
it was a photic zone species feeding on whales

so no

we would certainly not have missed it after centuries of intense whale hunting (especially if you take in account fishers'&hunters' tendencies to exaggerate)

>>1472525

>implying faeries are evolutionary impossible

>>1473081
>tropical whales gradually died out
>world got colder, shark cannot go into higher latitudes

l2gigantothermy

also Lamnid sharks are homeothermic (though I must admit the most dominant paleontologic view over Megalodons' classification is that that they were not as closely related to Great Whites or the rest of lamnid sharks as previously thought)

it would not be trouble for Meg to keep up with the whales

the problem was probably increased competition by smaller sharks and orcas

>>1472596
they both sharks

so megalodon must be trut

>>1472659

>technically
>technically
>technically
>NSFW picture
>>/b/

>>1472619
That is...terrifying. Just imagine yourself in a paddle boat and this monster slid underneath you.

>>1473244
If Meg was so terrifying then why did he have a girl's name?

CHECKMATE PALAEOICTHYOLOGISTS!

what's the theoritical limit over a vertebrates size?

>>1473446
Your mom.

>>1473446

Blue whale. Largest animal that ever lived.
Oh, and it still exists today.

>>1473459
Blue whale could have been beaten by a dinosaur, brah.

>>1473484

Your mother couldn't have. I'll leave you to figure out why.

>>1473520
The birds that descended from the dinosaurs pecked and then ate your penis

>>1473447
should in/b/4

>>1473459
how do we know that it can't get any bigger?

even terrestrial vertebrates reached nearly to its mass (or at least more than half of it)

>>1473559
How many plant eating fish?

>>1473576
>implying food pyramid

1st level consumers in marine encironments (that's zooplankton that all colossal filter-feeding marine organisms feed on) is probably a much more abudant source of nutritients compared to terrestrial photosynthesizers (base of the food pyramid)

even the Sperm whales that rely mainly in the nutritient-poor aphotic zone of the oceans are the largest macro-predatorial organisms that ever lived

so I guess that the whole limit is more biomechanical than it is ecological (something that a scarce population could easily solve as it happens with apex predators) - all the big filter-feeding whales even form large pods

>>1473629
any objections?

>>1473676
fuck yeah blue whales

>>1473676
most people aren't taller then 2m

>>1473688
and those who are ain't wearing dresses

>>1472466

looks like my mother in law

>>1473860
You funny man.

I kill you last.

I saw this thread and Blood And Thunder started playing in my head.

BREAK YOUR BACKS AND CRACK YOUR OARS, MEN.

Is it possible that intelligent life exists at the deepest depths of the ocean but are not technologically advanced enough yet to get to the surface.

more pics like this OP?

Is it possible that one intelligent OP could still be around we just havent seen one. Alot of the internet is still unexplored you know.

>>1473956
I see your reaction folder is lacking ''newfriend''

>>1472481
why bother? energy is always conserved