The high energetic demand would have been met by feeding on the calorie-rich blubber of whales, in which megalodon bite marks have previously been found in the fossil record. For extinct animals we can estimate the body mass with modern 3D digital modeling methods and then establish the relationship between mass and other biological properties such as speed and energy usage,” says co-author John Hutchinson, professor at the Royal Veterinary College in the UK. “Weight is one of the most important traits of any animal. Finally, they completed the model by adding “flesh” around the skeleton using a 3D scan of the body of a great white shark from South Africa. Next, they attached the column to a 3D scan of a megalodon’s dentition from the United States. The research team, which includes researchers from Switzerland, the UK, the United States, Australia, and South Africa, first measured and scanned every single vertebra, before reconstructing the entire column. The megalodon vertebral column from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences is, therefore, a one-of-a-kind fossil.” From single vertebra to whole body mass “However, their skeletons are made of cartilage, so they rarely fossilize. “Shark teeth are common fossils because of their hard composition which allows them to remain well preserved,” says first author Jack Cooper, PhD student at Swansea University. “These results suggest that this giant shark was a trans-oceanic super-apex predator.” - Catalina Pimiento An ability to eat large apex predators of comparable size millions of years ago places megalodon at a higher trophic level than modern top predators.
Notably, this is the size of modern killer whales, today’s top ocean predator. These results suggest that the megalodon could travel long distances and was capable of eating whole prey up to 8 meters (26 feet) long. It was estimated that it could swim at around 1.4 meters per second (3.1 mph), required over 98,000 kilo calories every day, and had a stomach volume of almost 10,000 liters. The reconstructed megadolon ( Otodus megalodon) was 16 meters (52 feet) long and weighed over 61 tons. According to their results, the megalodon could fully consume prey the size of today’s killer whales and then roam the seas without more food for two months.
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International researchers in collaboration with the University of Zurich used an exceptionally preserved specimen to create a 3D computer model of its full body.
However, there is little fossil evidence of its whole body. Megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, is famous for its gigantic, human-hand-sized teeth. Simple electronic digital clocks can also be used for home decoration.New 3D model shows that megalodon could eat prey the size of entire killer whales. Multi-scene use: can be placed in the living room, kitchen, bedroom, game room and office table, desk, bedside clock, and can also be hung on the wall.Equipped with a 9.2 x 3.6 inch large 3D LED display, which is easy to read at night and the time is clear at a glance, especially suitable for children and the elderly.
The button battery is only used for the memory function, which is convenient for time memory in the power-off mode.
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