Do you know what giant creatures have been born in the oceans in the 4.6 billion years of Earth's history?
These behemoths at the top of the food chain have dominated an era, especially the last one, and it is still possible to hide in the depths of the sea.
Fifth place, FangJiaoshi. It first appeared in the Ordovician period 440 million years ago, and resembles a combination of a snail and a squid, with a maximum body length of up to 9 meters. In the oceans of the time, the hornstone was the top predator, and no creature could bite through its hard shell. However, as jawed fish continued to evolve, natural enemies of the horned stone appeared.
Fourth place, Dunn's Fish. It was the natural enemy of the horn stone, and it was also the fish with the largest bite force at that time. In the face of the bite force of dungeon's fish of up to six tons, the horn stone is used to protect its hard shell, which is as brittle as a potato chip. The Dunn's fish is 8 to 10 meters long, weighs nearly two tons, the head and neck are covered with thick exoskeletons, and the mouth has extremely strong shield-shaped carapace teeth, which directly makes the Dunn's fish an absolute ocean overlord.
Third place, Canglong. The largest predator in the Cretaceous ocean, its adult body is about 15 meters long, weighs between 18 and 25 tons, and can swim at speeds of up to 50 kilometers per hour. With its huge size and super high speed, as well as more than 10 tons of bite force, Canglong wiped out all competitors in 1 million years, becoming the only ocean overlord at that time. But in the end, the dragon and the dinosaurs went extinct together 65 million years ago.
Second place, The Leviathan Whale. It is a true marine behemoth, with a body length of more than 17 meters and a weight of nearly 60 tons. The Leviathan whale is the largest toothed whale ever, with 40 cm long banana-shaped teeth growing on its upper and lower jaws, longer than an adult's forearm. Scientists speculate that the Leviathan whale also has echolocation capabilities, and when it finds prey, it will knock it unconscious with a large head more than three meters long, and then tear it apart with a mouthful of giant teeth.
First place, megalodon. It is the largest shark ever built, with a body length of between 18 and 22 meters, weighing about 70 tons, and its mouth is full of triangular fangs of about 20 centimeters. With a bite force of more than 20 tons, megalodon sharks can bite off whales in one bite, and even the Melvitan whales of the same period are not rivals of megalodons, and can even be reduced to food for each other. It is such a powerful creature that mysteriously disappeared 1.5 million years ago, and many scientists believe that the megalodon shark did not become extinct, but hid in the deep sea below 2,000 meters. So far, human understanding of the ocean is only 5%, two kilometers below is still a human cognitive forbidden area, perhaps, in the deep sea that humans have not been able to explore, there is really some kind of prehistoric giant hidden. #Cop##Prehistoric Behemoth##海洋巨兽 #
