Great Whites may have killed off Megalodon mega shark in savage battle for the oceans, says new research
Megalodon, the giant predatory shark, which has starred in our nightmares thanks to the many documentaries and fantasy movies, may have gone extinct at least one million years more than previously thought, and the great white sharks may have had something to do with it. According to a research paper published in PeerJ - the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences - on February 13, the claims about the 50-foot-long, giant shark Otodus megalodon going extinct 2.6 million years ago may be incorrect.
The team of researchers led by paleontologist Robert Boessenecker with the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina reported every fossil occurrence of O. megalodon the rock record of California and Baja California (Mexico) in order to estimate the extinction of the widely mythologized creatures.