Q: Did megalodons ever actually get as big as they are in the movie? A: Extremely unlikely And she weighed in for us on what is and is not possible - and what we still don’t know about sharks. She works at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. There, the megalodons terrorize shark fishermen and beachgoers a la Jaws.īut could a population of these mega-sharks actually have survived down in those mega-depths? Meghan Balk is a paleobiologist who studies the ancient predators. And - spoiler alert! - of course, the scientists inadvertently help the giant living fossils escape and head to the surface. Hydrothermal vents down in the movie’s trench supposedly keep its dark waters warm enough to support an ecosystem teeming with life.
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