Dear Discovery Communications, I have to say, I had high hopes for this year's Shark Week. But we're only one special in and already, shark week has seriously jumped the shark.
The awe-inspiring jaws of Megalodon at the American Museum of Natural HistoryPhoto from Wikipedia user Spotty11222 I get why you had a special about C. megalodon. What shark inspires more fear and fascination than Megalodon, the Chondrichthyean monster that once dominated our planet's oceans? The shark's name, which translates to "giant tooth", says it all. Their hand-sized dental records are some of the only fossilized evidence we have of these gigantic predators, which lived from ~50 million years ago to around 2 million years ago. Based on their size, scientists have estimated these sharks grew to upwards of 60 feet long with a bite force anywhere between 10 and 18 tons, and from scarred fossils we know they likely ...
