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Megalodon illustration caption (left) and (right) reversed?

Currently the caption reads (Multiple Image: FOOTER) Left image: Chesapeake megalodon tooth (Fig. 7) excavated from a Hopewell burial mound. Right image: Colonna's 1616 comparison of a megalodon (top left) and great white tooth (right).

However, the 1616 picture depicts the right-hand tooth [labeled Great White] as big and upper left-hand tooth [labeled Megalodon] as small. Perhaps the 1616 artists intended to magnify the Great White detail; or perhaps the caption now is reversed. In real life the dimension of megalodon teeth is big and the great white teeth is smaller. Therefore, either the 1616 picture is misleading by magnification, or else the Wikipedia caption is reversed. Gpwitteveen (talk) 18:57, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

isthe meg real ~2025-37616-82 (talk) 23:13, 30 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Change Mya to Ma. Mya is not used and is not an official abbreviation. Ma is typical in geology, though most write Ma ago. The source for this is also from wikipedia under the entry for Mya. ~2025-37376-05 (talk) 23:25, 29 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done. Both are commonly used, so it doesn't really matter. NotJamestack (✉️|📝) 23:37, 29 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ancestral orcas being competitors of Megalodon

Orcas only got big after the Megalodon went extinct. The ancestor to orcas, Orcinus citoniensis, the ancestral orcas were 4 meters long and ancestral orcas didn't hunt big game in the Pliocene. ~2026-23919-27 (talk) 10:23, 18 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Right, Megalodon went extinct in Pliocene Dunkleosteus77 (talk) 00:22, 21 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 07 May, 2026

SECTION: Location of Fossils: Megalodon had a global distribution, and fossils of the shark have been found on all continents except Antarctica, bordering all oceans of the Neogene.

CITATION: Megalodon Facts | Britannica, www.britannica.com/facts/megalodon. Accessed 7 May 2026. Pengiunshark349 (talk) 14:28, 7 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 07 May, 2026

SECTION: INTERNAL ANATOMY

Gottfried and colleagues reconstructed the entire skeleton of megalodon, relying on incomplete fossil information, which was later put on display at the Calvert Marine Museum in the United States and the Iziko South African Museum. This reconstruction is 11.3 meters (37 ft) long and represents a mature male,: 61 based on the ontogenetic changes a great white shark experiences over the course of its life.: 65

CITATION: [1] Pengiunshark349 (talk) 14:29, 7 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]