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Kintaro · Post by **Kintaro** » 2003-09-07 06:14pm

Here's a question that I've been wondering about for a long time: why the hell did these things become extinct?

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-09-07 07:00pm

Kintaro wrote:Here's a question that I've been wondering about for a long time: why the hell did these things become extinct?

The bigger they are, the faster they die when food becomes scarce. It's very simple.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-09-07 07:20pm

IIRC At the end of the last ice age, the locations of major upwellings of cold water(which bring up krill) and the mumbers of them, chnged... for the worse...

The whales the sharks fed on declined, and those that survived, migrated to water the sharks could not surive in...

Hobot · Post by **Hobot** » 2003-09-07 09:11pm

omg, that book has nearly the same storyline as a short story I wrote when I was in grade 6

Kintaro · Post by **Kintaro** » 2003-09-07 09:29pm

Yes, if food becomes scarce, they die. That's probably what did it, but how did lose its food source? I've heard that theory about whales migrating to colder waters, but it does not seem very reasonable to assume that the C. Megalodon died out because it could not survive in the colder waters (unless the water is freezing). Its relative, the great white shark, is warm-blooded and does just fine in cold waters (in fact, it prefers cold waters). I find it hard to believe that C. megalodon is not warm-blooded, either through gigantism or the way of great white sharks (damn, can't remember right off hand how they do it), though it is possible. What do you guys think?

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-09-07 09:38pm

They arent warm blooded but warm bodied... They can raise their temp a few degrees because of muscle friction... that is about it...

Kintaro · Post by **Kintaro** » 2003-09-07 09:54pm

Alyrium Denryle wrote:They arent warm blooded but warm bodied... They can raise their temp a few degrees because of muscle friction... that is about it...

Yes, that's how they do it. Maybe the whales moved to freezing waters where their blubber would keep them warm, and the sharks could not survive.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-09-07 10:22pm

that is where the krill is