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How BIG Were Megalodon Sharks? | Shark Week | Discovery
How BIG Were Megalodon Sharks? | Shark Week | Discovery
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0:03
Oh, wanted again.
0:05
>> Back on. It's back on.
0:07
>> Yeah.
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>> But huge. But huge.
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>> Yeah.
0:09
>> Like a monster.
0:10
>> And knows where to go.
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>> It's not letting go.
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>> Now he wants more.
0:25
>> This photograph is from uncovered Nazi
0:27
files. It's existence only recently
0:30
coming to light.
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The picture was taken just off Cape
0:34
Town.
0:35
>> Yeah, and I bet you Bigfoot was actually
0:37
like driving the submarine, too.
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>> It's absolutely incredible. You take a
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look at that picture and you measure the
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distance from the dorsal fin to the tail
0:46
fin and then compare that to the U-boat
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that's in the foreground. That's your
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scale.
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>> He is really not good at scales.
0:52
>> We're talking about a giant shark. That
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thing is enormous.
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>> Megalodon went extinct 2 to 2 and 1/2
1:00
million years ago. World War II, not 2
1:03
to 2 and 1/2 million years ago.
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>> I guess the implication is that
1:07
Megalodon hated the Nazis.
1:08
>> The other problem is that the narrator
1:11
>> I'm a marine biologist with a focus on
1:13
sharks.
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>> or whatever he is is comparing the size
1:16
of this animal to the U-boat, but
1:18
they're not actually in the same plane.
1:20
Because it's [music] a further back and
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I don't know how much further back that
1:23
is, you can't really make an accurate
1:24
measurement. The chance of this being
1:26
real is none.
1:28
>> Luckily for the Allied forces, it was
1:30
impossible for the Germans to recruit
1:32
Megalodon.
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Unluckily for Megalodon, it died out way
1:37
before even the Trojan War.
1:41
But why?
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>> No one really knows what caused
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Megalodon to go extinct. We know that
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[music] it disappeared off the planet
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around 2 million years ago and we don't
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[music] know much past that.
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>> I always like to tell people that
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there's not one smoking gun. It's
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probably due to a number of different
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[music] causes working together.
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>> So, there are two schools of thought on
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what caused Megalodon [music]
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to go extinct. The first argument is
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temperature change.
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>> Ocean temperatures changed a lot during
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the time that Megalodon was alive.
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Oscillated a little bit between warm and
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then a cool down.
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>> We have the first Antarctic ice sheets
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appear during the late Miocene, and some
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uh scientists believe that a lot of
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these filter-feeding or baleen mysticete
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whales were starting to migrate more
2:27
towards polar regions, [music] and that
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Megalodon just couldn't follow the their
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food sources.
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>> The other one [music] is rise of other
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competitors for their food, such as
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other sharks and larger whales, like
2:44
predatory orca-type whales.
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>> In the middle Miocene, we really have
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the peak diversity of medium-sized
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whales, and we see that that diversity
2:56
sharply decline into the Pliocene time
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period.
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The buffet, as it were, closed down, and
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they just couldn't find the resources
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they needed to survive.
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>> Sounds like Megalodon [music] may have
3:10
gotten too big for its britches.
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But if it hadn't,
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what would it be like on the open ocean
3:17
with Sharkzilla around?
3:19
>> I think it probably would definitely
3:21
impact tourism.
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>> [music]
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>> They probably couldn't come right up to
3:28
the swimming areas just based on their
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size. I don't think that Megalodon would
3:33
be coming in and grabbing people.
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>> [screaming]
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>> If the Megalodons were alive, I mean, I
3:41
know I'm thinking like pool, 100%,
3:44
right? Like I am not getting into the
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ocean.
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>> While the crew dumps gallon after gallon
3:50
of Jaws Juice into the drink.
3:52
I partake in another time-honored Cabo
3:54
tradition,
3:58
the midday siesta.
4:10
Tristan, any sharks?
4:12
>> No, nothing yet.
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>> You just let me know, man. I'm I'm ready
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at a moment's notice. I'm on high alert
4:17
over here.
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>> When you hear that word shark though,
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[music]
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you'll be up.
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>> I'm already up.
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It turns out diving for sharks is a lot
4:27
like fishing. There's plenty of waiting.
4:35
>> SHARK! SHARK! SHARK! SHARK!
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>> WHAT DO WE GOT?
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>> I THINK IT'S A BLUE.
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>> WOW.
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BLUE SHARKS ARE formidable predators and
4:56
have even been observed hunting in
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packs, growing up to 12 ft long and
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weighing in at around 400 lbs. Could the
5:04
blue shark be a dark horse contender for
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the title of Meg killer?
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>> Another pelagic predator, ocean
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wanderer, beautiful animal.
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As you can see, really beautiful blue
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coloration.
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>> It really does. It has like a blue tint.
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>> And then the big pectoral fins, almost
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like a underwater airplane coming in.
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>> Oh my word.
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>> And if you notice, the mouth is set
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slightly further back, so they've got
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this quite big snout.
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It should be called Pinocchio shark,
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really.
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>> With its long nose and recessed jaw, the
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blue shark is best equipped to eat squid
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and small fish. It rarely goes after the
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seals, dolphins, and larger prey that
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the Meg chased.
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>> These blue sharks certainly no
5:51
competition for something like the Meg.
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>> No chance.
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>> No chance.
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Seems like he's kind of taking off.
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>> Because there is other sharks around.
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>> Could be something else in the
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neighborhood.
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>> Yep.
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>> Maybe a good sign that he took off.
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>> Oh, yeah.
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>> [music]
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>> SHARK! SHARK! SHARK! SHARK!
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>> SHARK! SHARK!
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>> ANOTHER ONE.
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IS IT A BLUE?
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>> NO, it's a mako. Look.
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It's got that triangle fin.
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>> WE GOT A MAKO.
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ALL RIGHT, LET'S GET IN THE WATER.
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>> Let's get in.
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>> We race to get our gear on
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and jump in.
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I don't see the mako.
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>> Josh, over there. Two blue sharks.
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>> WOW! OH MY GOSH, THERE'S THREE OF THEM.
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HE'S GOING FOR THE BAIT.
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>> WOW.
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>> TO UNDERSTAND HOW GREAT whites
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strategize when faced with a predator
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over twice their size,
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Tristan and [music] Kenna will observe
7:24
from a drop cage 30 ft below the boat.
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Meanwhile, Soren and Odette will capture
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a bird's-eye view of the action using a
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drone.
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>> They're on top side. They're on top
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side.
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This is giant. We just a few things off
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the bottom.
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>> 10-4.
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>> The shark coming in.
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Oh, COMING UP NOW.
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WE'VE GOT THE COUPLE OF THE SHARKS
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AROUND.
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THE SHARK here for the decoy.
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The CDS down here.
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The shark having a chicken out of the
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trial section.
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And now there's a few of them just
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standing up down here.
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OH, IT'S COMING RIGHT IN NEAR THE TAIL.
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Right in on the tail.
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I thought he's going to have a go.
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Go!
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>> Oh, here it comes again.
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>> Hold it.
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>> Taking the decoy.
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>> Woah, he's not even trying.
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>> He's taking it. He's taking the decoy.
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>> He's got the decoy.
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They all seem interested in the one from
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the side.
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>> Oh, there goes for the tail.
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Going back in where it went before.
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Taking another big bite.
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>> The same great white attacks the tail
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again.
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Even faced with something as massive as
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a leviathan, the goal is to impair
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mobility.
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>> Hey.
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>> Oh, we lost it again.
9:48
>> Oh.
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>> It's back on. It's back on.
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Yeah.
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>> Oh, huge, but huge.
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>> Yes.
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>> Like a monster.
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>> It knows where to go.
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>> He's not letting go.
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>> No, he wants more.
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>> But solving the riddle is Dr. Mike
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Gottfried's dream.
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For years, the paleontologist has been
10:11
tracking fossil sharks here in the
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Chesapeake Bay.
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Suspended in layers of ancient mud that
10:19
formed the Calvert Cliffs are pieces of
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the puzzle.
10:22
Traces of animals that swam or were
10:24
washed out to sea.
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20-ft crocodiles once hunted on this
10:30
shoreline.
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Ancient seabirds soared overhead.
10:35
But this was also a bountiful feeding
10:37
ground for the giant ancestors of
10:39
dolphins, whales, and the predator that
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loomed over this prehistoric ecosystem.
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>> There are a whole range of animals from
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filter-feeding shellfish, fish eating
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the shellfish, small sharks eating the
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fish, medium-sized sharks eating the
10:55
small sharks, big sharks eating the
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medium-sized sharks, and the dolphins,
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and some of the other marine mammals all
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interacting in a food triangle with this
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giant megatooth shark right at the apex,
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right at the top of that triangle.
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>> Though remnants of their prey survive,
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all that's left of these ancient sharks,
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relatives of the mako, the tiger, and
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the great white,
11:17
are their teeth.
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>> The question is, what would be a
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predator on a whale that got up to maybe
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25 [music] or approaching 30 ft long?
11:26
Well, there's an answer to that
11:27
question. The most spectacular predator
11:29
that we know of from the marine
11:30
environment, probably in the history of
11:32
life on Earth, these gigantic sharks,
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gigantic shark called Carcharodon
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Megalodon. [music] And this is just one
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tooth from one of these sharks, just to
11:40
give you an idea of how immense they
11:42
were. And the teeth can get even bigger
11:44
than this. This is a pretty good size
11:45
one, but not as big as they can get.
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This is a shark about the length of a
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Greyhound bus and weighing [music] the
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equivalent of probably seven or eight
11:59
Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaurs.
12:03
People who think that dinosaurs are the
12:05
biggest, nastiest predators that we've
12:06
had on the planet, uh there was a shark
12:08
that was even bigger, even more
12:10
spectacular, and clearly the most
12:12
astonishing apex super predator that
12:14
that the oceans have known, at least
12:16
since the end of the age of dinosaurs.
12:23
>> SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, is home to
12:27
one of the world's largest captive shark
12:29
populations.
12:31
Hours before dawn, the staff is rousing
12:34
the residents for their semi-annual
12:36
ritual,
12:37
a physical exam.
12:42
Corraling a reluctant bull shark isn't
12:44
easy,
12:46
but blood tests and ultrasound tell
12:48
researchers about its life cycles.
12:53
This facility has had enormous success
12:56
breeding sharks.
12:58
They want to find out if any are
12:59
pregnant.
13:03
Dr. Gordon Hubbell is a former wild
13:05
animal veterinarian and one of the
13:07
country's most influential fossil shark
13:09
collectors.
13:12
With many shark species on [music] the
13:14
decline, he advocates studying captive
13:16
animals to protect those in the wild.
13:21
Loners by reputation, sharks adapt well
13:24
to aquarium life if mixed with
13:26
compatible species.
13:29
Understanding [music] how sharks feed
13:30
and reproduce and whether they ever rest
13:33
may provide clues to their sketchy past.
13:37
>> We find with shark evolution that
13:39
[music] a shark species exists for at
13:42
least 10 million years or more usually.
13:43
With [music] mammals it's not that way.
13:45
A mammal species will last about a
13:46
million years before it's replaced by
13:48
something more [music] efficient or more
13:50
aggressive.
13:51
So why are we so concerned today? Well,
13:54
we find that with all this perfect
13:56
[music] adaptation that they have, they
13:58
have one flaw. And that is they have a
14:00
very slow reproductive rate. So when a
14:03
population of sharks is decimated,
14:04
[music]
14:05
it doesn't bounce back like the bony
14:07
fish populations do.
14:09
It may take generations. In fact, it may
14:11
never come back.
14:16
>> I think the idea of building an extinct
14:19
shark, a replica of Megalodon, is just
14:22
awesome. Okay, there's been so much talk
14:24
about what this shark could do, what it
14:26
looked like, how it functioned. And
14:29
without actually having a working model
14:30
to scale, those questions can't be
14:33
addressed properly.
14:34
>> Joining Chuck is mechanical designer Jim
14:37
Sherrits.
14:40
Jim is charged with turning scientific
14:42
theory into engineering blueprints that
14:44
will give birth to Sharkzilla.
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>> Pretty cool.
14:48
I'm meeting Chuck here today for a
14:50
mutual reason [music] and I'm hoping he
14:52
can, you know, help me visualize and
14:55
understand a little bit more about these
14:56
creatures so I can build the most
14:58
accurate replica of what Megalodon could
15:00
have been.
15:02
>> But first, Jim and Chuck need to inspect
15:04
the Tooele's whale fossil.
15:07
>> Yeah, he found the first two vertebra,
15:09
you know, which is part of the backbone,
15:11
and then after that I told him, "Okay,
15:12
time to leave."
15:13
>> She kicked me out of the hole.
15:14
>> [laughter]
15:14
>> And then I went in and I started
15:16
excavating all the way down and it just
15:19
kept going and going.
15:20
>> Wow, this is almost all complete, huh?
15:22
>> Right, and you can see all the vertebrae
15:23
just all the way down.
15:24
>> There's even tooth fragments in this,
15:26
too.
15:26
>> Yeah. Yeah.
15:27
>> Also, if you take a look as you go down
15:29
here, yeah, it's too
15:31
we're still in the body vertebrae, the
15:34
thoracic here, I think. And so, this
15:36
[music] thing's probably going down
15:37
another, what do you think, about 10 ft
15:39
or so?
15:39
>> So, it's a good size. So, we're probably
15:41
looking at about, not
15:42
conservatively, 25 ft or more. Yeah.
15:46
Big big whale.
15:48
>> Chuck brings his paleontological
15:49
expertise to our crime scene.
15:52
>> It looks like
15:53
it's been rammed or some kind of injury
15:56
caused the the backbone to actually
15:58
twist at a 90° angle, and then another
16:00
portion of the display at another angle.
16:02
I don't believe that was done by
16:04
currents because I think the rest of the
16:06
skeleton would have been disarticulated.
16:08
And at the end where the head is, the
16:10
head is missing. [music] And yeah, it it
16:12
could be that the head, you know, rotted
16:15
and fell off, but I think it would have
16:16
been found close by. I think that part
16:19
of the injury was, you know, caused by a
16:21
Megalodon.
16:22
>> And I think if we would go through this
16:23
a little bit more in detail, we might
16:25
see some of the scratch marks from where
16:27
it crushed it.
16:28
>> It looks like it's been beheaded.
16:30
>> The head had been bitten off. And that
16:33
was the first point where I thought, you
16:34
know,
16:35
we've got this Megalodon, it probably
16:37
bit the head off of this whale. What
16:39
kind of power does that take? You know,
16:41
what is it that I'm going to have to
16:42
build to represent that?
16:44
>> I mean, that was a huge bite.
16:46
>> The force of that to bite that head off
16:47
would be that would be a big shark. That
16:49
would be a 55-ft shark probably.
16:51
>> Right up my alley. The bigger the
16:53
better. I mean, if we're going to do
16:55
this, let's let's figure out, you know,
16:57
what this thing could have been. Let's
16:59
let's build it. Let's build it.
17:00
>> to see it.
17:02
>> Easier said than done.
17:06
>> Sean, Lisa, come here. We are about to
17:08
solve this Miocene murder. Do you want
17:10
to have the first look at the killer?
17:14
>> Wow, Well, is one big shark.
17:16
>> Was it worth the wait?
17:17
>> It sure was.
17:19
>> What the hell was that?
17:22
>> There were no survivors.
17:28
Now, marine biologist Colin Drake and a
17:30
team of shark experts are in the process
17:33
of planting an underwater camera and
17:35
sonar in hopes of capturing footage of
17:38
the unknown predator that attacked the
17:40
fishing boat.
17:42
>> You see anything down there?
17:44
>> I see nothing. It looks a bit murky.
17:46
>> Mike, come in. Mike. Something's not
17:48
right.
17:49
>> Drake lost visual contact and all audio
17:51
communication with Mike.
17:54
>> Mike, can you hear me down there?
17:57
Mike, come in. Mike.
17:59
Why the hell isn't he answering me?
18:12
I'll be over as soon as possible.
18:13
>> What happened down there, man? You just
18:14
disappeared.
18:15
>> Here you go.
18:16
>> The radio malfunction caused Mike Bonner
18:19
to lose contact with the boat. However,
18:22
the sonar was working properly, which
18:24
means Mike and his scuba partner were
18:26
not alone in the water.
18:31
>> You're all right?
18:32
>> Yeah, I'm all good. I'm good.
18:32
>> You're all right? Okay.
18:34
>> Yeah, I'm all good. Yeah, I'm all good.
18:37
>> All right, how'd you get down?
18:39
You see anything down there?
18:41
>> Was it First of all, the seal just
18:43
disappeared.
18:43
>> Yeah.
18:44
>> And then
18:45
there was a moment there I I turned to
18:46
you and I thought I saw something go
18:48
past you.
18:49
And then something definitely went past.
18:53
>> The guys were in a bit of a cloud there
18:54
for a moment, and unfortunately, they
18:57
couldn't quite make out what was down
18:58
there.
18:59
>> We've managed to place the camera on the
19:01
seafloor precisely where we wanted. This
19:03
is an area where we know [music] that
19:05
submarine has been sighted in the past.
19:07
So, hopefully, we get some good data.
19:31
>> Mhm.
