Joe Harker
I know what you're thinking... the animal in the picture above is quite obviously a whale and not evidence of the massive megalodon shark which went extinct about 3.5 million years ago.
That's true, but this isn't about the whale, it's about what might have killed the whale.
What manner of beast could shred a marine mammal as mighty as a whale? Well of course a megalodon could do it, but we think they all died out.
Only, when it comes to toothy denizens of the deep blue sea, it doesn't help to presume.
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Humans might think we know it all, but we've only just seen what a newborn Great White Shark looks like, so perhaps beneath the lapping waves of our oceans lurk many more secrets yet to be discovered.
As we saw in the popular 2018 film The Meg, ruddy giant sharks can take you by surprise and it doesn't help to assume that we know everything which lurks under the sea.
A wise man once said 'there's always a bigger fish', and in this case the Discovery Channel thought there might have been a fish large enough to shred a whale.
Of course, we have no concrete evidence to support or dispute this - as far as we know, the last megalodon died millions of years ago.
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Traces of them have been discovered, with their teeth being found in a flooded cave in Mexico, but there have been no confirmed sightings of a megalodon.
That's not stopped people from having an intense fascination with the extinct species and acting as though they'd prefer our oceans to be full of deadly monsters.
If you're the type to wish your map said 'here be monsters' and for there actually be monsters then you might enjoy the simulated sight of a megalodon absolutely going to town on a boat.
Of course it's all for entertainment purposes but I ask you this, dear reader, what if they were still here?
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Far scarier than a monster you can see is the monster you can't, but know in your heart of hearts is still there.
Bear in mind that only about five percent of the ocean has actually been explored.
We may peer into those briny depths and wonder what's down there but many of the answers will continue to elude us for the longest time.
So what we're saying is don't count the megalodon out just yet, because you never know.