Ultimately, it’s up to you to decide what you think is possible. There’s no food for it down there, and no other shark species are known to thrive that deep.Of course it’s also possible there is another piece of the puzzle not yet considered. They’re believed to dive deep into the ocean and be prey for sperm whales.
save hide report. So that’s probably not happening.What about giant squid?
edit subscriptions. The Mariana Trench represents just one small part of the Earth’s last, great frontier. Megalodon shark? There could be anything down there and it just doesn't seem like we're all that motivated to explore.Well anything we send down there eventually gets crushed due to the water pressure, that's one factor on why we haven't had the guts to discover it. It would make much more sense if it lived closer to the surface. 19 comments. What the hell is the mariana trench? umans have been measured with a bite force of around 1,317N. That's as best we can tell, it's possibly deeper, we just can't tell.How are we not more interested in the Mariana Trench? By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. It’s located in the western Pacific ocean, near the mariana islands. Will be interested in how you spin this story. Here’s what I’ve got. In the daytime, it dives down to 500 feet or deeper.The Megamouth Shark remained hidden for so long simply because it dove to 500 feet for most of the day. Sperm whales can be found upto 8,000 feet deep, but even then they’d have no place being there.
popular-all-random-users | AskReddit-news-funny-gaming-aww-worldnews-todayilearned-pics-Showerthoughts-space-tifu-videos-movies-television-IAmA-TwoXChromosomes-mildlyinteresting-Jokes-gifs-explainlikeimfive -science-LifeProTips-OldSchoolCool-history-personalfinance-creepy … Theyre metabolism are slow. In fact, it's a quite normal sized shark of it's species (sleeper shark) that was found in a Suruga Bay, Japan in 2008. Great article! If Megalodon lived in the mariana trench it had to adapt. Who knows it could be out there! With much stranger creatures.New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castPress J to jump to the feed. I'm a marine biologist and wrote about the Marianas Trench. Who knows.So how would this coastal predator go from munching on whales and dolphins. But unfortunately not one with any scientific merit, as of yet anyway. Is it even possible for megalodon to live in the mariana trench? Plus we might wake up Godzilla or something. As mentioned before, they need to eat alot of big fish and you don’t really get alot of that at the bottom of the ocean…Although a sperm whale would be a pretty good meal for any megalodon.
Could megalodon be having a cheeky giant squid for tea? That would have been my first guess.That was 1 mile down, the trench is around 7 mi deep.
100% Upvoted . Complete bullshit...... That is a greenland shark, shot in the arctic , The bait box is on the bottom the marianas trench is steep sided and 7 miles deep We keep saying the trench is the deepest in the ocean ,but we fail to realize sometimes that we have only mapped and explored about five percent of the ocean floor. It’s a massive fish reaching 20 feet in length or more. What chances do we have of finding a Megalodon that may live at 11,000 metres?Well there’s The Portuguese Dogfish it’s a species of Sleeper Shark known to survive at depths of up to 12,000 feet.The Pacific Sleeper Shark and Greenland Shark are huge animals reaching over 20 feet in length which can live at depths of up to 9,000 feet.Even the Great White Shark has been recorded diving to depths of 4,000 feet.Maybe. To having deep diving creatures for tea at the bottom of the mariana trench?That would be the Megamouth Shark. 75. This thread is archived. We could easily discover something deeper. But, while it may be true that Megalodon lives in the upper part of the water column over the Mariana Trench, it probably has no reason to hide in its depths.