Megalodon Giant Shark Turns Out To Have Toothache, What’s The Reason?

KOMPAS.com- Megalodon is hiu an extinct giant that dominated the oceans millions of years ago. A new study finds, although megalodon carnivore scary sea, it turns out giant shark it’s not immune to problems gigi.

Quoted from Live ScienceThursday (2/6/2022) in this study the researchers analyzed megalodon teeth (Otodus megalodon) which has a split shape.

In humans and other mammals, genetic factors, disease, or injury can sometimes affect tooth buds and cause a dental abnormality known as double dentition pathology.

The condition occurs in which one tooth grows with a split lengthwise in the middle. However little is known about this pathology in sharks.

Researchers then analyzed the megalodon’s 10cm-long split teeth along with the split fossil teeth of another shark to determine what caused the deformity.

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To find out if it’s really a giant shark megalodon can cause toothachescientists also research hundreds of tooth fossil shark in the collection of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh.

They found only two examples of the split tooth deformity. Both belong shark teeth bull Carcharhinus leagues.

Scientists later concluded that traumatic injury was the most likely cause of the shark’s teeth becoming split.

With about 300 teeth in its mouth, the megalodon didn’t seem bothered enough by a single split tooth.

“But if his teeth bud (hiu megalodon) is injured by the spines or spine of the prey which then lodges in the jaws of the shark. That would cause the animal a lot of pain and possibly make it more difficult to hunt,” said study co-author Haviv Avrahami, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

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