Monstrous megalodon was a slow swimmer with big appetite, finds study

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Monstrous megalodon was a slow swimmer with big appetite, finds study
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This vicious predator preyed on marine animals such as whales, seals, and huge fish.

“Our big scientific findings come from ‘tiny evidence’ as small as grains of sand,” said Shimada in anUntil now, the biology of these ancient sharks has been primarily deduced from their massive tooth and vertebral relics.

These new findings also create a new paradox. The species was thought to be partly warm-blooded or regionally endothermic. Recent investigations have also presented the same conclusion. To find questions to this paradox, the team reviewed body physiology literature. It turns out that O. megalodon had a massive appetite.

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