Ahh megalodon, Now that is a shark !! They are the long lost relative of the great white. Scientists believe that they where also similar in body design, this animal dined on anything. They have a number of fossils whale vertebrae that have had meg teeth imbedded in them, also there are tons of whale bones that show scarring from the teeth a of a megalodon. To keep one , they would need to build an enclosed bay for one. It would make the any of the whale tanks at sea world look like a fish bowl. They speculate that like the great white these sharks needed to keep moving, so they would need something HUGE !!!
I discovered megalodons about 12 years ago when I made a stop over in South Carolina at some town called I think Murrel , Murkells (something like that) inlet. I went wondering down by the river looking for gators and snakes after walking about a half an hour I saw a really weird rock picked it up and could not believe it, it was a sharks tooth. I thought it was a joke and kept it. When I got back to the truck I showed it to a local and he told me what it was. I kept it and did a little reading on them and been hooked since. I have also found 2 more in Florida as well as a bunch of smaller ones and one large prehistoric mako tooth. Here are some pics of them.
This is the one I found in South Carolina It measures almost five and half inches long.
These two found with friends in Florida, with in two days of each other. There were big storms out to sea and the tide washed them in. The first one is five and a quarter inches, with a little damage to one side, but still VERY impressive.
This is the second one I found, it is a little over two inches long. For the movie buffs, this is the size of the tooth that Hooper pulled out of the hull of the boat in the movie jaws.
Here is all three together.
This is a mako tooth it is a little over an inch.
Ohh the serrations on the megalodon teeth are still quite sharp.
For those who like to read fiction, there are a couple of thriller novels out by Steve Alten about a megalodon loose in modern day. VERY GOOD BOOKS!! If you like shark stories
Good post smokinstarfish
Had to share the fossils !!
Brian