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Old 11-07-2013, 07:15 PM   #24
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Re: Possible endangered species sighting...Caribbean Monk Seals

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Originally Posted by Tyson Brown View Post
If Caribbean monk seals can come back out of extinction, then why not megalodon?




http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories..._monkseal.html
Species "coming out of extinction" is not unheard of. Just google info on the Coelocanth. This is a species of fish with two living species that were rediscovered in the Indian Ocean, after they were originally thought to be extinct since the Cretaceous period.

As far as Megalodon. There is no doubt that it is extinct. WIthout getting into it TOO much, basically they would be in the Order of Lamniform sharks (same as whites, makos, porbeagles, salmon sharks) which are largely coastal species and are all slightly endothermic. Given that, plus it's large size, one would have been found a LOOOONG time ago.
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