If Jaws Had Been A Whale

Jaws, the most iconic shark film of all time, is likely the source of thalassophobia in millions of people worldwide. And it's not hard to see why, cause… well sharks just look really scary, far scarier than whales, but there was one whale, now far gone, that actually would’ve made for one terrifying jaws, the Livyatan.

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0:00 Intro
1:21 Discovery & Naming
2:03 Classification & Similarities To Sperm Whale
2:36 Body Size
3:39 The Largest Teeth Ever
5:04 A Gruesome and Powerful Bite
7:04 What The Livyatan Ate
7:53 Echolocation And A "Hidden" Weapon
9:33 Did It Hunt Together Or Alone?
10:08 Livyatan Vs. Megalodon
13:32 Range and Habitat
14:00 The Animals It Lived With
15:10 Why So Many Giants At One Time?
15:46 Extinction

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[ExtinctZoo]

Hey everyone, just a heads up, I had to remove the first 26 seconds of footage so apologies for the abrupt start! Enjoy 🐋

[ricerice]

Animals that we normally perceive in our heads as being gentle giants actually turning out to be killers somehow makes them a whole lot scarier and creepy than the ones we usually perceive as just predators

[mashlea]

"Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?"

[misskate]

I love how artists all have different opinions on how it looked. Cute, scary, beautiful.

[queendragon]

That's it, new head canon: THIS is what swallowed Piniccio and Geppeto and then rammed a cliff in the original Disney movie

[WilliamHaisch]

_“It’s a whale eat shark world and I’m wearing sealskin underwear.”_
—Norm Peterson of Cheers, probably 😂

[kydulkl]

Mean sharks are scary but mean whales are even scarier, because they can think. And they look way meaner too.

[doomfeast]

Sharks: Megalodon.
Whales: Lyvathan.
Sharks: We gotta work on this for a moment

[epronovost]

I'd just like to mention that shortly after Jaws was released, there was a movie named Orca: the killer whale released. It fuses aspects of both Jaws and Moby Dick within it's story. Basically a fisherman kills the titular killer whale mate and baby during a botched capture attempt and goes on a revenge rampage, attempting and ultimately, successfully killing all the members of the ship and other members of the same fishing community. Like in Moby Dick, the rampaging animal actually triumphs over the humans and unlike Jaws, it does have a "eco" messaging as in, it's a good thing the rampaging animal won.

[RykerCowne]

0:53 “the livyatan” subnautica music starts playing

[Signedcentaur]

"The Shark's name was Bruce"

Me: "Fish are Friends, not Food"

[lcbtaxconsultingsl]

0:18
So that's why he started the "fish are friends not food" thing, turns out he was just doing that since he got his food from somewhere else

[blitsriderfield]

the more I learn about cetaceans, the more i realize that we have slandered sharks into oblivion

[notoriousbigmoai]

We know that Moby Dick was inspired by real events (the sinking of the whaling ship Essex) but what if I told you there was another whale that is even scarier than Moby Dick? His name is Porphyrios and he sunk hundreds of ships for over 50 years during the Byzantine Empire.

[nonoo]

Did you know, the guy who made Jaws spent the rest of his life trying to improve the lives of sharks after the movie because the impact of the movie to sharks was an increase in shark m/rders. A world without sharks could be the end of the world itself, which is why a shark d3ath increase worried the creator of Jaws

[huntercool]

As someone who had an irrational fear of whales as a child and not sharks, this is a nightmare come true.

[danielmesser]

Honestly, the relationship between livyatan and megalodon and would probably be similar to the relationship seen in lions and tigers in Northern India. With them actively avoiding another.

[aeis]

That title sent my imagination onto a path that is honestly terrifying to put too much thought into

[AND-odjt]

You're prolly too young to have seen it back then, but NOONE thought Bruce to be a Megalodon.
The main reason is, that it was classified as a "Carcharodon" species and wasn't put in the correct order - "Carcharocles" - until the late 1990s... in other words: Megalodon didn't hit pop-culture way after even the 5th part.

[Nikolio]

1:19 this looks like the whale from the og Pinocchio cartoon, that thing always terrified me as a kid 😰