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The shark eating thread

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  • Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Sharks are pretty perfect

    Perfectly tasty for an orca whale :)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Perfectly tasty for an orca whale :)
    Megladon :p


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Megladon :p

    As it turns out, it has been thypothesized that orca whales played a part in the downfall of the megalodon, out-competing and possibly predating upon their young.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    A Tv documentary recently put forward that there was a large toothed whale that hunted Megalodon in packs. Not an Orca but an earlier version. I can't remember the name of the creature I am afraid, but I know one of you will have heard of it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Rubecula wrote: »
    A Tv documentary recently put forward that there was a large toothed whale that hunted Megalodon in packs. Not an Orca but an earlier version. I can't remember the name of the creature I am afraid, but I know one of you will have heard of it.

    Brygmophyseter? - a cousin of the sperm whale.



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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Brygmophyseter? - a cousin of the sperm whale.


    From Jurassic Fight Club >.< Bad show...

    There is also Leviathan (yeah, I know about the new spelling but I don´t really like it XD)


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Yeah that paleontologist / interviewee guy they have on it is quite the head wrecker.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Galvasean wrote: »
    As it turns out, it has been thypothesized that orca whales played a part in the downfall of the megalodon, out-competing and possibly predating upon their young.
    what eats sharks ?



    dunkleosteus-a.jpg


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭Adam Khor


    what eats sharks ?



    dunkleosteus-a.jpg

    Or this...

    shark_vs_croc_australia.jpg

    Small shark, tho. BTW what an amazing Dunkleosteus pic :D John Sibbick, N'est-ce pas?


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    mmmm shark
    2ecoxw9.jpg


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Or this... scavenging but shark-eating at the end of the day. I have a better pic of a hyena eating a shark in my computer but, I think you can´t upload directly from your hard drive to the forum?

    stripedhyena_cjr.jpg


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Adam Khor wrote: »
    Small shark, tho. BTW what an amazing Dunkleosteus pic :D John Sibbick, N'est-ce pas?
    supposedly 2m long - so it's about the right size for a person
    will look up the book later on

    forget T-Rex - Dunkleosteus hd biggest teeth ever ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    That Livyatan whale is supposed to have had the biggest teeth ever...


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭Adam Khor


    supposedly 2m long - so it's about the right size for a person
    will look up the book later on

    forget T-Rex - Dunkleosteus hd biggest teeth ever ?

    It didn´t have teeth, I think those scissor like things were modified jaw bones : >


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Arf!
    sealion-eating-shark.jpg&sa=X&ei=AMKxTYa7C4jLhAfHmYzrCg&ved=0CAQQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNEfeAnmP0PG-W3zP8mjtkNMv-nhvg

    Liopleurodon:
    liopleurodon.jpg&sa=X&ei=5cKxTcqzIMLOhAebkInrCg&ved=0CAQQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNFE_U1Sr_u1aYH1Qd51okQeGdaL2g

    Hyneria:
    Hyneria_g.jpg&sa=X&ei=_8KxTd3MBsqohAeTr4TrCg&ved=0CAQQ8wc4Dw&usg=AFQjCNFBMVTXhE80Z0sNhdmKzjbeqMKXow

    Mega%2BShark%2BVs%2BGiant%2BOctopus.jpg&sa=X&ei=p8OxTdatDc6HhQfB4o3rCg&ved=0CAQQ8wc4IQ&usg=AFQjCNGszH2oPgmespaJzQjwKr5P7L70bw


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Arf!
    sealion-eating-shark.jpg&sa=X&ei=AMKxTYa7C4jLhAfHmYzrCg&ved=0CAQQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNEfeAnmP0PG-W3zP8mjtkNMv-nhvg

    Liopleurodon:
    liopleurodon.jpg&sa=X&ei=5cKxTcqzIMLOhAebkInrCg&ved=0CAQQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNFE_U1Sr_u1aYH1Qd51okQeGdaL2g

    Hyneria:
    Hyneria_g.jpg&sa=X&ei=_8KxTd3MBsqohAeTr4TrCg&ved=0CAQQ8wc4Dw&usg=AFQjCNFBMVTXhE80Z0sNhdmKzjbeqMKXow

    Mega%2BShark%2BVs%2BGiant%2BOctopus.jpg&sa=X&ei=p8OxTdatDc6HhQfB4o3rCg&ved=0CAQQ8wc4IQ&usg=AFQjCNGszH2oPgmespaJzQjwKr5P7L70bw

    These pics have caused Bruce a nervous breakdown

    tumblr_lioinrmG011qc0iam.gif


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Did somebody say.... BRUCE!?!?!?
    BatmanVsShark.jpg&sa=X&ei=k8WxTb3zHY-KhQeU6MnrCg&ved=0CAQQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNGJ_Hr5J_ZGAxX_FsV7orzRaXahVQ


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Did somebody say.... BRUCE!?!?!?
    BatmanVsShark.jpg&sa=X&ei=k8WxTb3zHY-KhQeU6MnrCg&ved=0CAQQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNGJ_Hr5J_ZGAxX_FsV7orzRaXahVQ

    WTF!! XDD


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Adam Khor wrote: »
    It didn´t have teeth, I think those scissor like things were modified jaw bones : >
    a mouth full of mother freaking guillotines


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    The big Dunk is really just a tiddler you know.

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/10/1001_031001_biggestfish.html


    I think some of those shark eating fish may have been this fella too:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanichthys


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Rubecula wrote: »
    The big Dunk is really just a tiddler you know.
    I know , but for it's time it was a monster
    and it still has wicked choppers

    NIVUl.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    As soon as I get my printer fixed I would like a copy of that.

    Thank you very much Cap'n.


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    I know , but for it's time it was a monster
    and it still has wicked choppers

    NIVUl.jpg


    Some serious messing about with sizes going on in that pic if they are meant to be somewhat to scale.

    Leedsichthys looks in the 80 foot range in that pic. All recent studies on it have put it in the 30 - 35 foot range with a few saying it may have had a maximum size of 50-55 foot.


    The Archelon in the pic looks to be three or four times longer than the human, but the largest ever fossil remains were from a specimen estimated to be about 13 foot long.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Kess73 wrote: »
    Some serious messing about with sizes going on in that pic if they are meant to be somewhat to scale.

    Leedsichthys looks in the 80 foot range in that pic. All recent studies on it have put it in the 30 - 35 foot range with a few saying it may have had a maximum size of 50-55 foot.


    The Archelon in the pic looks to be three or four times longer than the human, but the largest ever fossil remains were from a specimen estimated to be about 13 foot long.

    The pic is from Tim Haines' Chased by Sea Monsters, which is from the same "litter" as Walking with Dinosaurs. I have the Walking with Dinosaurs book and it explains how the series creators would often base their creatures on undescribed and fragmentary remains. For example, Stegosaurus is officially "only" 9 meters long but there were fragmentary remains found in the US that suggested that larger individuals, probably up to 12 meters long, had existed. So of course they embraced this maximum estimate. They did the same with Diplodocus, Ankylosaurus and Ornithocheirus, and more famously with Liopleurodon.
    So I wouldn´t be surprised if this was their modus operandi with Chased by Sea Monsters as well.
    Even so I don´t think the pic is all to scale; the Xiphactinus looks almost as long as the Elasmosaurus and the "Megalodon"...


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Re: Leedsichthys.

    http://www.big-animals.com/leedsichthys-problematicus-the-biggest-fish-there-ever-was/

    Quote:

    Because nobody has ever found a complete Leedsichthys skeleton, it’s not clear how big, exactly, Leedsichthys Problematicus grew. Modern estimates put it at 50 to 75 feet long (16 to 22 metres), making it the biggest fish ever – bigger than the Whale Shark or the Megalodon ! Not everyone agrees, however


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    The Xiphactinus is way too big. He could swallow a human like a pea!


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Re: Leedsichthys.

    http://www.big-animals.com/leedsichthys-problematicus-the-biggest-fish-there-ever-was/

    Quote:

    Because nobody has ever found a complete Leedsichthys skeleton, it’s not clear how big, exactly, Leedsichthys Problematicus grew. Modern estimates put it at 50 to 75 feet long (16 to 22 metres), making it the biggest fish ever – bigger than the Whale Shark or the Megalodon ! Not everyone agrees, however



    Those estimates are based on old research. Pretty much all research since 2003 has them in the 30-25 foot range with the possibility of a few 50-55 foot outsized specimens. The 60, 70, and 80 foot estimates have long since been discounted and put down to overestimation and incorrect scaling up from fossil finds.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    To be honest I think that poster is one of those things they pin up in a school for science class. None of the sizes look right really.

    Thanks for the info Kess.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    280 million years ago back in the Permian there was mesosarus it looked like a croc so it may have gobbled the odd shark too

    how long have remoras been around ?


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭Adam Khor


    how long have remoras been around ?

    I think the oldest are from the Eocene. Could be wrong tho...


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