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Scroll down a few inches then read about giant sharks :cool:

 

 

 

http://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/newsletters/2009newsletter/2009_march_monthly_newsletter.html

 

© Rex Gilroy 2006.

Carcharodon megalodon, the upwards 23 to 24m length giant shark species ancestral to todays White Pointer Shark, has been claimed to be extinct for the past 2 million years by scientists. However, fossil teeth younger than 2 million years have been found, and sightings claims made by fishermen and others over a wide area of the Pacific region over many years to the present, suggest this monstrous species still survives in the ocean depths.

 

The four largest teeth ever discovered of this species measure up to 19cm length, suggesting the creature to which these belonged measured up to 22.85m in length. Against such estimates, its modern-day relative, the Great White Shark, or “White Pointer” pales into insignificance!

 

It has been said that nothing would have been safe from a giant shark of Carcharodon dimensions, not even a submarine or modern hulled ship!

 

During the 1970’s scientists measured the jaw power of sharks. Employing the Snodgrass Dynamometer to calculate the shearing action of the jaws of a 2.45m shark, they were astonished to find it had a biting power of 6,613.8 pounds of pressure per square centimetre! That’s over three and half tons! If this is normal jaw power for a modern 2.45m length shark, imagine the awesome power that the jaws of Carcharodon megalodon must have possessed - or still does, if as some believe this species still survives!

 

Beware TDD !!!

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