The size of the giant tooth shark (Otodus megalodon) known from the Hollywood movie Meg – The Primary Shark was determined by a British study.

Researchers from the University of Bristol and the University of Swansea have used mathematical models to determine the size of marine primates based on the size of the available remains and today’s sharks. HE Scientific reports according to his study published in the journal

The megalodon was 16 meters long, of which the head was 4.65 meters, the dorsal fin 1.62 meters and the tail 3.85 meters long.

As they wrote, this means that if an adult had stood on the shark’s back, it would have been roughly the same height as the length of its dorsal fin.

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Jack Cooper, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol, one of the study’s authors, said he was always very interested in sharks, working and diving with great white sharks in South Africa during his college years, of course with a closed cage protected from them. underwater.

“It was the megalodon that had drawn me to paleontology since I was six years old and made me happy to study later,” said the scientist. The Guardian.

Cooper noted, however, that investigating the primitive being is not an easy task, as only its teeth have survived.

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