Did Megalodon Bite This Shark In Half? (Wildlife Expert Reacts)

What do you think took a bite out of this Mako shark?

I really like how Forrest doesn't treat the laymen who thinks it could be a megalodon like they're idiots. He walks through the possible more realistic scenarios (orca, great white) and breaks down why it wasn't them. Then delves into the megalodon question seriously, and explains without talking down to people why it probably wasn't that and gives a more reasonable explanation. One of the most important jobs for a scientist is to be able to deliver scientific information to people in ways they can digest without being condescending, and i think Forrest does this really well.

That satellite image & footage is from a Mockumentary about the Megalodon for shark week on Discovery 10 years ago. Big fan of Forrest Galante!

Maintaining a balance between being open for new ideas and not allowing misinformation to conceal the truth is always a fine line to walk

Sorry that was me, I was really hungry 😔

I think Megalodon is extinct, but I think there is a giant species of deep sea shark that has been undiscovered. My reasoning is that Megalodon only can thrive in warm waters thus died out a long time ago, but I think another species of shark adapted to colder environments and went deeper underwater where it grew enormous due to deep sea gigantism and that is what we see when we get these megalodon stories.

The major issue I have is with the "big bite." Look at, it very clearly comes to a shallow point in the center. It's almost the same size as well. So it was probably 1 animal that bit it twice there.

Wasn’t that photo of the shark from the satellite actually photoshopped in? One version shows the shark, but when you look at the original it doesn’t have any animals on there.

I noticed right off the top the shape of the bite marks. There are multiple bite marks, possibly 3, due to bite geometry. Possibly a feeding frenzy, triggered by the sharks behavior, of one or two other animals.

Nailed the thumbnail face ahahaha love the content forest, australian here big fan

There isn’t the possibility that the bite was done by a giant and off scale shark (with a some sort of pituitary gigantism syndrome) but still smallest than a Mega?

My favorit youtuber by far! Love this guy and I appreciate all the hard work you do! God bless you man 🙏🏽

You never know but very awesome video, thank's for sharing i love the videos

This is by far my favorite YouTuber! Keep up the awesome content!

That satellite photo lmao

Love the content! and you dont look like a pufferfish any more Great work!

i really like this format, its engaging and real nice to follow along

Ive waited for so long for someone to investigate this event! ive always found it so strange.

That is nus! I was fishing on a barge out in the bay in front of Kona Hawaii with a friend 23 years ago. We had a handline made of heavy Kevlar rope with a 20 foot 1000 pound cable rub line. I hooked a huge4 pound palani (surgeon fish) for bait on a huge circle hook. We were in about 60 feet of water and were also fishing for ulua, (jack fish). Just before we had to leave due to the sun coming up and exposing us, the rub line can we set in the slack goes flying. We didn't even have time to put our gloves on at first. This thing was HUGE and pulling like a submarine, not an ulua. After burning our hands and trading off the rope, almost getting my foot caught in the slack that would violently rip back into the water from the fish fighting back. Tied and hurting like hell we finally get the thing up to the end of the barge. The barge end was 30 feet and it was half the length, 15 ft, tiger shark. Our headlamps clearly showed off its beautiful stripes and when we pulled it up to cut the line we saw all of it's teeth in full view. We cut the line as close to it's mouth as possible and then had to get right in our tiny unstable dingy. It was a nervous paddle back. I miss Hawaii!

Best video about anything iv seen for such a long time.. thanks Forrest