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Note to Leftists seeing this post. First welcome, think of The DaleyGator as a self-help site. Second the giant prehistoric shark was not named MAGAlodon, so you are safe. Third, why has no one, except me ever thought of calling it MAGAlodon. Think of how that would trigger the left. Anyway……
Prehistoric? Yes! Awesome? Yes! H/T to Fritz
Chesapeake Bay Mag, Calvert Cliffs Discovery Fuels Megalodon Hunting Theory
A pair of 15-million-year-old fossils found along Calvert Cliffs is shedding new light on the predatory behavior of the massive prehistoric shark megalodon.
Two fossilized vertebrae from the same Miocene whale reveal brutal injuries that local scientists conclude must have come from a megalodon. Amazingly, the whale appears to have survived for another two months after having its bones crushed by the megatooth shark.
Researchers from the Calvert Marine Museum (CMM) and the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine made a detailed study of the prehistoric fossils. They come from a whale that would have been about 13 feet long and show evidence of a major shear-compression fracture. “For this kind of injury to happen,” CMM researchers say, ” the whale’s backbones had to have been bent very forcefully into such a tight curve that pressure from the adjacent forward vertebra smashed the next one. This would have been an excruciatingly painful injury for the whale.”
No shear-compression fracture like the one in the whale fossil has been found in any living modern-day whale, even from blunt force injuries suffered during boat strikes.
In review Megalodon was a bad ass fish!
