Great Whites May Have Taken Out Megalodon 3.6 Million Years Ago | SciShow News

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Skillshare is offering SciShow viewers two months of unlimited access to Skillshare for free! Try it here: https://skl.sh/scishow-13 Megalodon is the largest shark that’s ever existed, and according to Hollywood it’s alive and well. But according to scientists, it’s definitely extinct, and it was probably thanks to its smaller cousins, great white sharks. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Greg, Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Megalodon: https://peerj.com/articles/6088/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0091419 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23066865 https://earthsky.org/earth/supernovae-killed-off-megalodon-large-ocean-animals-extinction-pleistocene Sevengills: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37576-6 http://lajamjournal.org/index.php/lajam/article/view/182 Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Megalodon_scale.svg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dinosaur-fossils-megalodon-tooth-mosasaurus-tooth-spinosaurus-tooth-tyrannosaurus-rex-gm916329722-252151326 https://peerj.com/articles/6088/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SN1994D.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/the-great-white-shark-gm503988446-82899123 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/a-broadnose-sevengill-shark-swims-in-the-aquarium-a-sevengill-shark-has-seven-pairs-gm1083283940-290615423 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:170121-Sevengill-04_DSC0632.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:170121-Sevengill-02_DSC0627_(1).jpg
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