Fossil evidence suggests the megalodon had the strongest bite force of any living creature, even outstripping the bone-crushing power of a Tyrannosaurus rex.
A 6-inch megalodon tooth dwarfs the roughly 2-inch tooth from a great white shark. The great white shark is a formidable oceanic hunter. Its powerful jaws are capable of exerting overBut compared to the megalodon, a giant prehistoric shark that roamed the oceans from 15 million to 3.6 million years ago, the great white seems like a mere minnow. The megalodon had a sleek bodydwarfing its modern counterpart.
Despite its unmatched ferocity, the megalodon was driven to extinction due to climate change and subsequent shifts in whale migration patterns, depriving it of its primary food source.Of course, the megalodon was not the only formidable — and sizable — creature to roam the ancient seas., for instance, were another group of apex predators that dominated the oceans during the Cretaceous, from 130 million to 65 million years ago, well before the age of the megalodon.
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