At the beginning of the Miocene, marine mammals were at the height of their diversity and abundance—especially the megalodon's favorite prey, small whales.
What did megalodon eat? Emma explains, 'With its large serrated teeth megalodon would have eaten meat - most likely whales and large fish, and probably other sharks.
megalodon — like modern great whites — ate many different things, from orcas to squid.
Did Megalodon eat dinosaurs or people? Fortunately, the Megalodon went extinct recently enough that we have excellent fossil remains to show us exactly what it ate - and its prey should not surprise you: It ate mostly large marine mammals such as whales, seals, dolphins and dugongs, and large fish and turtles.
The megalodon had a stomach volume of almost 10,000 litres, meaning it would have been capable of eating prey up to 26 feet (8 m) long. While it would have been able to chomp up a modern Orca, this means it could not swallow a T. rex whole like in 'Meg 2: The Trench'.
The dinosaur could simply step on the Komodo dragon, but it would most likely just bend down to the ground and bite through the hapless lizard and feast on it. There is no possible way that a Komodo dragon would kill an adult T-rex.
In the battle between a megalodon and an orca pod, the orcas would have the advantage.
Megalodon, an ancient shark, had such a huge appetite that it could have swallowed an 8-metre-long whale in just a few bites, according to the first 3D reconstruction of the predator. This new description upgrades its already gigantic size to at least 16 metres long and a weight of 61.5 tonnes.
It was capable of covering vast distances in short order, and could eat the largest of modern living super-predators, the killer whale, in five gargantuan bites. It could have swallowed a great white shark whole.
Although Megalodon teeth are frequently discovered, a full megalodon jaw has never been discovered. Saltwater breaks down cartilage, so all megalodon jaws have likely dissolved.
For years, paleontologists speculated why the famous 18 meter (59 foot) long shark disappeared from the oceans around 2.6 million years ago. New evidence suggests competition and lack of food may have been the causes.
The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) may have wiped out the giant megalodon (Otodus megalodon). But scientists may have miscalculated megalodon's time of death by about 1 million years.
While we think of most whales as docile, these beasts were a notable exception, being apex predators who would aggressively pursue any potential prey in their environment, megalodons being among them.
The world's biggest shark Megalodon might have been killed off by the Great White, scientists have revealed. Megalodon faced competition for food from its smaller and nimbler rival, the researchers found. The prehistoric shark lived between 3.6 million and 23 million years ago and were known for their enormous teeth.
In plainer English, the gigantic sharks likely feasted upon unfertilized eggs in the womb. This helped them grow to be about two meters in length (6.6 feet) by the time they were born. Adult Megalodons could go on to become about 15 meters (50 feet) in length when fully grown.
Iconic Giant Megalodon Was Predator's Predator, Even Eating Each Other. The ultimate predator of predators was a massive 50-foot-long shark that was so powerful it even ate predators that ate other predators.
Megalodons are extinct. They died out about 3.5 million years ago. And scientists know this because, once again, they looked at the teeth.
Megalodons succumbed to global cooling due to the shrinking of their habitat, the vanishing of their favorite prey, and competition from other predators 3.5 million years ago.
They were much larger than Tyrannosaurus rex. Megalodons weighed up to 100 tons, while T-rex weighed a puny 9 tons.
Past megalodon research suggests these giant marine predators, which first appeared around 16 million years ago, could chomp with more than three times the force of T. rex, based on the new figures. The bite force of a megalodon—"just because it was so much larger-bodied—would have been bigger," Bates said.
The blue whale is the biggest living being alive today and it is far larger than any megalodon. The blue whale can grow upwards of 100 feet long and weighs more than 110 tons.
It's hard for enemies to successfully attack something so large. The T-Rex shares the same benefits of a large body and the ability to outpace many smaller predators. Since the Giganotosaurus is larger, this dinosaur gets the edge. Tyrannosaurus Rex likely rammed its predators to the ground before biting them.
A Giant gorilla will struggle to handle the massive jaws of t-rex, which can kill him with 1 bite only. Gorillas arent very durable animals, and they are thin-skinned. T-rexes however, were more durable, thick-skinned, and can heal much faster than gorillas.
In Jurassic Park 3, the Spinosaurus easily defeated the T-rex by clenching its neck tightly between its jaws.