No I doubt it very much. Marine animals that live at the surface can't survive the depths because of the weight of water, it's tons of pressure per square inch. Anything that breathes can only go so deep before the pressure in unequal then it's crushed to mud. Similarly there's marine life that can't go to shallow water or they explode, again unequal pressure so if it lives near the surface it would've been seen by now. Too much ocean going traffic since the industrial age to have missed something that big. If it lives in the depths then nobody wouldve ever came across something like it to start the myth in the first place. If it seems too fantastic it probably is. Folk have boring lives and make shit up
The trench is as deep as mount Everest is tall and I don't think that includes the surface to seabed depth. They put the challenger deep into it years ago for a survey but it's a big place and pitch black. The crush pressure that deep down would squash a tank into a lump of shit though. Fish need oxygen either at the surface or the stuff that's dissolved in the surface ocean. If there's something big down deep it won't look like a fish and it won't ever come up high enough for us to see it. We'd have to go down and it's be like looking for a needle in a haystack
It's possible, but it seems unlikely because it would seem that they'd have to live really, really deep to avoid detection. The problem with that is that all of the life found really, really deep tends to be pretty small as the resources down there are tight.
Then again, there's the giant squid, which is fairly rarely seen, however scientists know that it's not a rare animal given how many of them whales apparently eat. So maybe it's possible that these huge creatures are there and just have managed to avoid detection the way that most of the giant squids do?
I think Megalodon can be still alive. They found the Coelacanth in 1938 off the African coast. Scientists thought that the Coelacanth went extinct with the dinosaur.
The ocean is massive, and we know more about outer space than our oceans. It's super possible.
@tryingnewthings22 No. The dinos had a mass extinction. Only animals who have now evolved into other creatures have remained like crocodiles, birds and bacteria.
you do know that birds are still dinos right? they are literally called, avian dinosaurs. ''The scientific consensus is that birds are a group of theropod dinosaurs that evolved during the Mesozoic Era.[1]'' look to the book the origin of birds for reference of what birds are considered
The Horse, and all canids, and felines evolved from the same common ancient ancestors, also. But birds now are not as their ancient ancestors, and it's kind of misleading to call birds dinosaurs. I mean, why don't we say humans are monkies while we're at it.
Alligator gar are ray-finned euryhaline fish related to bowfin in the infraclass Holostei. The fossil record traces their existence to the Early Cretaceous over a hundred million years ago.
@tryingnewthings22 "The most studied mass extinction, between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods about 65 million years ago, killed off the dinosaurs and made room for mammals to rapidly diversify and evolve."
Horsehoe crabs and coelecanths are indeed ancient species, but neither of them are dinosaurs. Why don't you look into the dates that those two animal are said to have come into existence, and compare it to the age of dinosaurs.
''The most studied mass extinction, between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods about 65 million years ago, killed off the dinosaurs and made room for mammals to rapidly diversify and evolve."
this quote is inaccurate because if dinos suffered mass extinction then birds wouldn't exist in the first place. This is common sense, and national geographic is not a good source of information compared to the actual book of the study of birds which does state that they are classified as avian dinosaurs. its sad that you are reaching this far
@truthteller555 Then go argue with one of the most widely read and well-respected magazines in the world. They aren't perfect, but their writers do a lot more credible research on these things than you do.
My point was - I didn't pull my original statement out of my ass - it's a well known scientific understanding about why we don't "still" have dinosaurs.
Part of the problem people have in understanding biological evolution is that they imagine things like "dinosaurs" as having existed all at the same time, in the forms we generally see them. They don't totally get that the era of the dinosaurs was 175 million years long, and that during that time, SOME animals that began as dinosaurs evolved into other animals we now recognize as birds. SOME animals that began as dinosaurs evolved into ancient forms of animals we recognize now as gators, crocs, gars, turtles, etc. BUT they aren't actually dinosaurs still, and they weren't dinosaurs anymore when the mass extinction happened.
If you don't trust Nat Geo, then maybe the UK national Natural History Museum, you know, the actual scientists who study this stuff, may be more trustworthy a source for you:
Here is a less scholarly, short blog post about some of the animals that DID survive, and a bit more about them (the article cites more scholarly sources throughout):
Well there are some prehistoric creatures that still exist today, there's a species of jellyfish that never dies from old age and is actually immortal. Crocs and gators are in fact prehistoric creatures, the only difference is they used to be much, much bigger.
And there are legends of several prehistoric creatures going back as little as 100, 200 years.
Not to mention consistent reports of people seeing some of these creatures for hundreds of thousands of years straight, think that's a coincidence?
Lets also keep in mind that only 1% of our oceans have even been thoroughly explored or explored in general at all. It's really not that hard to come to the conclusion that some species of ancient creatures could still be alive today and even thriving in some places in the ocean.
Certainly, but not megalodon. If I recall correctly, it lived in relatively shallow waters, the kind where you cannot possibly hide a 40+ foot shark. There are many regions of our planet we haven't investigated yet, where the terrible lizards could still live, but the megalodon does not live in one of these
I fought it doe to food supply but I'm sure size of fish that eats flesh would be about 30ft max. But thats personal guest with knowledge base of books, and programs. And what is wash up on shore. I don't think megaldon still around but a great white maybe. They have been found is waters that deep.
aren't komododragons actually dinosaurs? thought I saw that on discovery channel one that. something about that this animal stayed the same over all these years. like same with crocodiles. but crocodiles evolved 🤔. I always find this a interesting topic.
we can do better than that. anything is possible because we haven't unlocked the secrets of the universe. but we can make educated guess based on available data. it is possible, but unlikely
Its feasible but I don't think so. Maybe somewhere in the dark recesses of the ocean they linger in smaller numbers than during their prime but primarily I think they just became great whites because the food supply couldn't sustain them at their size. I would be terrifed to think there's still any out there.
megaladons lived close to the surface so unless they evolved and are illusive no, but its possible that some are still alive in the depths of the ocean, it would explain all the sharks getting eaten of South Australia
the sea is only about 12% explored, so we dont know whats in the other 88%... theorethical there could be another intelligent lifeform with a civilization...
No I doubt it. Fishing trawlers have been pretty much everywhere in the world that has a lot of marine life. Most the big fish have been wiped out or close to it.
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