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I actually fact checked this and it's true.

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[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I made sure to say barely instead of not at all, but you're right, there was certainly some evolution happening

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, thankfully Megalodon isn't cruising around anymore. Though that might have delayed European expansion until they had metal clad vessels....

That sounds like a fun story, like a Pride and Prejudice and Zombies but instead it's Master and Commander and Megalodon.

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can we even know for sure that Carcharocles Megalodon is in fact excinct?

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't prove the non existence, but you can be very sure about some things. Megalodon lived near the surface, because it liked warm water(AFAIK), so it's likely that if it wouldn't be extinct there's a high chance that we would notice it, since Megalodon was kinda big.

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah okay, seems plausible then. It's more fun to believe otherwise though, not gonna lie. After all, there's still so much we don't know about our oceans.

[–] ssfckdt@mastodon.cloud 1 points 1 year ago

I just saw one the other day at the 7-11