Talk:Megalodon

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)

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

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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)

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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: Pengiunshark349 (talk) 14:29, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Unable to move the range map in the paleoecology section

There is a visual bug on mobile devices that doesn't allow the range map in the paleoecology section to be fully moved to the other side. Does anybody know how to fix it, as I do not know how to. Any information on how to fix it is appreciated. Rangoon creeper (talk) 12:13, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

Alleged predators of young Megalodon

There seems to be a strong emphasis on the Snaggletooth shark and the Great Hammerhead shark preying on young Megalodon. There is no proof of this trophic relationship but speculation in a paper which under-estimated Megalodon size using an outdated method. Even a neonatal Megalodon was a large-bodied shark to begin with (> 3 m in TL), large enough to migrate and attack marine mammals much like a Great white shark. Snaggletooth shark is extinct and the Great Hammerhead does not attack Great white sharks over 3 m in TL. A nursery area is supposed to be a habitat that small sharks can safely exploit and not exposed to large predators. There is another paper that correctly suggests that the Megalodon was the apex predator of the Gatun habitat. A speculation should not be advanced as a theory. LeGenD (talk) 05:14, 16 August 2026 (UTC)

I have amended relevant information in the Growth and Reproduction section in a manner that original content wasn't removed. LeGenD (talk) 01:52, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

There are links in the article to Wikipedia templates

Hello friend. I don't have a Wikipedia account myself and this article is protected so I am unable to attempt a fix, but under some of the sections of the article there are links to Wikipedia's templates which I believe is due to some formatting error - I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with Wikipedia's formatting to locate the specific issue so I cannot point it out either. Apologies.

This is specifically as follows:

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• "See also" section contains:
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• "Notes" section consists only of:
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• "References" section consists only of:
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• "Further reading" section consists only of:
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• "External links" section contains:
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  • Template:YouTube with comments on its extinction.
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  • Template:YouTube (featuring expert Dana Ehret)
  • Template:YouTube (featuring expert Mikael Siverson)
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~2026-47166-15 (talk) 13:33, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

Rangoon creeper, please fix this. You've made hundreds of edits and the table with fossil locations seems to be completely broken, and my only other recourse here is to just do a major revert of the whole page, which I'd rather not. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 14:36, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for telling me. I Reverted the page back to the orginial version and it seems to have fixed it, if there are any other problems please let me know. Thank you. Rangoon creeper (talk) 13:53, 1 September 2026 (UTC)