@starstryder Oh! And the Megladon has a FASCINATING story. Scientists first thought that they went extinct during the Pliocene marine megafauna extinction, but recent research now points to the rise of great white as their competitive push to extinction. https://t.co/ByH0TdKHki
@WhySharksMatter FYI my colleagues and I just published a new paper pushing the extinction of C./O. megalodon back 1.1 million years; so it is certifiably deader than ever. Here's the #OA paper: https://t.co/81n0gZWvD3
Jaws -- not radiation -- might've killed the biggest shark to ever live. Summary here: https://t.co/dh8dR3VhG2 Full paper here: https://t.co/QXPVUDLkDV https://t.co/dh8dR3VhG2
ICYMI, you can read 'The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific' here: https://t.co/paAVnwSa6S https://t.co/SRCKBJN4lp
This is such a good paper. I found it in @thePeerJ by @CoastalPaleo et al. some time ago, I finally got around to read it and I just love the methodology and the writing style and the way the discussion is presented. https://t.co/IAOyx8mVxN