Why Did Megalodon Go Extinct?

The Wild Times crew discuss some of the possibilities why Megalodon would go extinct.

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[theeverchosen]

Finally, an actually interesting short

[CMMD]

Ocean gets salty

Megaladon: *why’s it spicy*

[xGLOOMxx]

You guys got it all wrong.
Megalodon’s went extinct because Jason Statham had enough.

[Ioosen]

One day humans finna go extinct and aliens gonna talk about us in there podcast in 4050

[Batmanstabbingadog]

*megaladon just chilling
Nature: and I took that personally

[cthulhusgrandmother]

I literally didn't recognize him by the level of thickness is his beard

[grishawinner]

Newest theory is that it developed wings and is now chilling in Pluto

[noer]

The main reason for their extinction was direct competition with the great white. Due to its smaller size and higher levels of maneuverability, the great white was able to out hunt the meg, and with the leviathan whale also being a direct competitor, food sources became extremely scarce. Extreme competition for food and drastic changes to sea levels likely caused the meg died off.

[wizzy]

Megalodon: *I am the apex predator*

God: *Lemme lower the ocean temperature a bit*

[kayyangchung]

I was so worried that this was going to be some bad conspiracy crap but it was just two dudes wholesomely talking about big shark

[Mockturtlesoup]

Megalodons extinction also coincided with a major drop in cetacean(whale) diversity, which of course was a major, if not primary food source of theirs.

[michaelcavallacci]

True story. On my life.
I’m 61 years old. When I was a teenager my father used to take me deep sea fishing off of montauk point in NY.
One morning we were on the charter boat owned by my dad’s friend. A call came into the captain that a dead whale was floating in the close shipping/ fishing lanes off the Point. Apparently the coast guard was unavailable I’m guessing. And our boat was close. And apparently tow equipped. So the boat went to the whale maybe 15 minutes away. They hooked the tail to tow the carcass out to deep waters. We were going and all of a sudden the boat jerked back violently. The whale carcass bounced around. It rolled over. There was a lot of bite marks in it but there was a fresh one that a man could stand in. Literally. The spine was showing.
The crew cut the line and we sped away as fast as we could.
I don’t remember what happened next but everyone looked very nervous. The boat went back into harbor and we called it a day.
I’ll never forget it.
The bite mark had to have been 5-6 feet from top to bottom and 3-4 feet from left to right.

[KTæMIN]

Extinct or not I still ain't swimming in the deep ocean. With my luck the mf kraken would come outta nowhere and eat me

[efg]

Freshwater: freezes
Megladon: why do i hear boss music

[matthewmaldonado]

i’m still convinced there’s still at least one out there.

[phantomphoenix]

There's a theory that Orca's outcompeted the Megaladon and caused them to starve till extinction, i think its a pretty cool theory!

[adameliezer]

As a paleontologist, our working theory is that the Meg simply grew too large to be able to compensate for when the climate shifted during the end of the glaciation period at the time. The main food source of the Meg was giant whales and other cetaceans. When the climate shifts, and the water changes temperature, it both greatly limits the established range, not only the Meg can swim too and breed in, but also it's main food source. There's a pretty standard rule in evolutionary biology in that the bigger you get, the harder you fall. So when the temp of the water suddenly starts to change, your food source becomes limited, and suddenly as a predator it becomes harder and harder to survive. Ultimately it seems that this drove the Meg to extinction.

[GheeDot]

“There’s a whole theory that it didn’t go extinct, okay” **explains ways it went extinct**

[blissfulhumanoid]

Imagine thinking you have all the answers when all you know is Meth

[jrb]

Them calling a mahi-mahi a snapper is a crime