Megalodon is NOT alive today, it went extinct around 3.5 million years ago. Go to the Megalodon Shark Page to learn the real facts about the largest shark to ever live, including the actual research about it’s extinction.

The largest is the whale shark, which has been known to get as large as 18 meters (60 feet). The smallest fits in your hand. And the great white shark is somewhere in the middle.What is the Biggest Shark? A Chart Shows the Diversity of Shark Sizes …http://ocean.si.edu/http://ocean.si.edu/Search for: What is the largest shark on record?

It was previously believed that a White Shark of 5 m to 6 m in length would be 15 to 25 years old. In their 2014 paper Hamady and colleagues, however, state that the largest female white shark analysed (5.26 m fork length) was up to 40 years old.White Shark, Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) – The Australian …https://australian.museum/https://australian.museum/Search for: How old is a 5m great white shark?

This ancient beast is called a megalodon shark, and if it had never become extinct, it would have a surprisingly large impact on our lives. For starters, if megalodon sharks still roamed our oceans, the last place they’d be going would be the Mariana Trench!

The largest shark that ever lived, the prehistoric—and certainly extinct—megalodon, might have been driven to extinction by a smaller and nimbler competitor that still roams the seas today: the great white shark. Research pegged the behemoth’s extinction to around 2.6 million years ago.

Like today’s largest sharks, megalodon also faced competition from a giant whale that hunted the same prey. Its name was Livyatan, and it was a ferocious competitor to megalodon. Livyatan was about the same size as the massive shark, weighing an estimated 100,000 pounds and reaching up to 57 feet in length.

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While one on one a megalodon is completely superior to an orca, the orca pod hunts and fights on cooperation. The orcas will simply ram the megalodon on gills and circulate around it on three dimensions. Orcas are far more agile than megalodons, and the fish needs to concentrate on several enemies at one time.

A pod of carnivorous whales, orca size (20–30 feet) or larger, could kill a megalodon.

Megalodon was much bigger, and the largest jaw size that have turned up in the fossile record was 2.7 meters (9 feet) high wide open and 3.4 meters (11 feet)wide. Thus, a large adult megalodon could easily swallow a 5-meter female orca, though an 8-meter male orca might have been somewhat more difficult.