How Big Are Megalodon Shark Teeth? page all

KOMPAS.com – Megalodon is the largest fish ever known.

Discovery of hundreds of fossilized teeth and several vertebrae megalodon shark showing its enormous size.

Megalodon and great white shark teeth Bentuk (Carcharodon carcharias) show similarities so that the two species may be close relatives.

Thus, the shape of the megalodon shark most likely resembles that of the great white shark species.

Reported from Encyclopedia Britannica, the estimated body length of megalodon sharks was calculated using statistical relationships between fossil sizes megalodon teeth and the body mass of modern white sharks and other living relatives.

Also read: Why did the Megalodon Shark become extinct?

The calculation results show that the adult megalodon has a body with an average length of 10.2 meters.

The largest specimen has a body along the 17.9 meters.

However, some scientists think that the largest megalodon may have been as long as 25 meters.

Later, studies estimated that the body weight of an adult megalodon ranged from approximately 30 metric tons (1 metric ton is equivalent to 1,000 kg) to more than 65 metric tons.

Megalodon tooth size

megalodon teeth similar to the modern white shark in that it is triangular, serrated, and symmetrical.

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However, there are differences between the two because the teeth of modern white sharks are larger and thicker, the teeth on each tooth form periodically, and they have a bourlette (a darker chevron-shaped area near the tooth root).

The largest extant megalodon tooth measures 17.8 cm long.

This size is almost three times longer than the teeth of modern white sharks, which are usually about 5.4 cm long.

In addition, the megalodon with its large teeth had a fierce and strong bite.

Megalodon bite diameter reached 3 meters, larger than the bite diameter of an average white shark.

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