How Big Was Megalodon Really?

As a shark expert, I can confidently say that megalodon was the size of a megalodon-sized shark

Spino: "so... folks are confused about what you looked like too?"😒 Meg: .... "yep."🤷🏾‍♂️

At least as big as a golden retriever. Possibly even bigger.

"So how big was Megalodon?" "Big." "Exactly how big was it?" "Yes."

The fact that a juvenile specimen is in a private collection is utterly disheartening.

The size of a normal shark. It just had enormous, buck teeth that other sharks made fun of.

"Murder Guppy"... Love it!

What are the odds that both you guys and another channel I follow (Wild World) would both upload a video on the real size of Megalodon within one minute of each other?

Megalodon has seen how much attention Spinosaurus was getting with all the controversies and decided to give it a try.

Magalodon is the spino of the sea. Unless you believe spino was full aquatic then none of this makes sense

Megalodon: has another change Spinosaurus: first time?

So dunkleotius get smaller but megalodon gets bigger so that’s probably a accuracy of the the meg films

"A Grounded Scientifically accurate depiction in the next Meg movie... " why i love this Channel 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm good with the Meg shark getting a size upgrade. It'll be interesting to see what an updated size estimate works out to be considering the newest paper.

When I was momentarily distracted I misheard "a unique fish would need" as "a unique fish with knees" and snapped back to attention. "They discovered WHAT NOW?!" I had to listen to it a few more times before I finally clued in. I think it's second-cup-of-coffee-o'clock. Thank you for another fantastic shark week! I look forward to it every year. While Megalodon is probably the species of prehistoric marine life I'm least interested in (sacrileges, I know) it's always nice seeing two of my main interests overlap. Thank you for continuing to provide educational and interesting content!

Simply the best summary of the history of megalodon sizing on YT at the moment (I was involved in the 2021 summed crown width study). Yes, as always more is coming on the subject.

It was the size of a goldfish, just with a really really big head :face-blue-smiling:

There is an associated dentition of its immediate predecessor Otodus chubutensis which is in a Swiss museum. The dentition with skull and vertebrae was smuggled out of Peru, so most scientists ignore it. I believe that is the one that you have pictured at the end of your video.

Meg is just the new spino

Yes! SHARK WEEK!