But there’s definitely a right way and a wrong way to go about the encounter if you don’t want to become fish food. G F Bm C D Em A A F Fm Gm Gm D B Cm E Chords for Sea of Thieves Music - Summon the Megalodon Shanty Epic Remake with song key, BPM, capo transposer, play along with guitar, piano, ukulele & mandolin. If you want to add some restrictions for this card, go to Manage my collections > Edit card and add them as additional instructions in the description. megalodon throughout its range, driving it to extinction-rather than radiation from outer space," says Boessenecker. Once upon a time, this beast terrorized the Sea Of Thieves. (like the Megalodon card), so we kept it as an Epic card. "We propose that this short overlap (3.6-4 million years ago) was sufficient time for great white sharks to spread worldwide and outcompete O. When competition gets really fierce, the fight for survival turns into a zero sum game, and as the available prey began to dwindle in number, the great white appears to have come out on top. But flash forward just two million years later, and these predators had successfully spread themselves across the entire globe.Īs they ventured from ocean to ocean, the researchers think the great whites might have infringed on the megalodon's territory, outcompeting the younger ones for food. Great whites first showed up on Earth about six million years ago, and at first, they were confined to the Pacific.
Together, they argue that the fossil evidence aligns better with the rise of the megalodon's smaller but still fierce relative. Given the new timeline, a new explanation is needed, and Boessenecker and his team think they've caught a big one. megalodon was previously thought to be related to this marine mass extinction - but in reality, we now know the two are not immediately related," explains lead author Robert Boessenecker, a vertebrate paleontologist at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Going through every megalodon fossil collected on the west coast of North America, however, the researchers noticed that some of the samples had been misidentified and misdated.Īfter making extensive adjustments, they calculated that the shark's disappearance must have happened at least one million years earlier than once thought. Past research suggests that the megalodon ( Otodus megalodon) went missing 2.6 million years ago alongside a wave of marine extinction, potentially caused by a supernova that triggered severe climate and biodiversity changes during this time. Taking a fresh look at the fossil record, researchers are now proposing that this mega marine creature may have been killed off by none other than the modern great white shark ( Carcharodon carcharias). It's a juicy bit of ancient history that has inspired a host of books, documentaries and blockbuster films, some of which like to imagine that this bloody thirsty monster is still alive today, lurking somewhere out there in the mysterious deep.Ī new study has once again confirmed that this is not the case.