Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Size comparison of the great white and whale shark to estimates for megalodon Proportions of megalodon at lengths of 3 m (10 ft), 8 m (26 ft), and 16 m (52 ft), extrapolated from extant relatives, with a 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) diver
Pygmy blue whale males average 83.5 tonnes (184,000 lb) to 99 tonnes (218,000 lb). [53] The weight of the heart of a stranded North Atlantic blue whale was 180 kg (400 lb), the largest known in any animal. [54] The record-holder blue whale was recorded at 173 tonnes (190 short tons), [55] with estimates of up to 199 tonnes (220 short tons). [56]
English: A size diagram comparing various size estimates for the extinct shark Otodus megalodon to Carcharodon carcharias (great white shark), Rhincodon typus (whale shark), and a human. Also shown are megalodon specimens the estimates are based on, vertebral column IRSNB P 9893, upper anterior tooth NSM PV-19896, and lateral tooth GHC 6.
Meg 2: The Trench hits theaters this week with a larger-than-life depiction of the megalodon. Here’s what we actually know about the beast, according to scientists.
“The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth.” The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. While this ocean mammoth is dubbed ...
Some balaenopterids perhaps rivaled the blue whale in terms of size, [116] though other studies disagree that any baleen whale grew that large in the Miocene. [117] The true largest macroraptorial sperm whale is none other than the Livyatan, with an estimated length of 44–57 ft (13.5–17.5 m) and an estimated weight of 62.8 short tons (57 ...
In the seas millions of years ago, whales were regularly hunted.Megalodons, bus-sized sharks, are believed to have been dominant ocean predators some 20 to 3.6 million years ago. The now extinct ...
The largest shark in the fossil record is the megalodon (Otodus megalodon), a colossal Neogene lamniform. The range of estimates of the maximum length for megalodon are from 17 to 20.3 m (56 to 67 ft), with a mass ranging from 65 to 114 short tons (59 to 103 t). [41] [42] [43] It is also regarded as the largest macro-predatory fish ever.