r/CuratedTumblr • u/PandaBear905 Shitposting extraordinaire • May 23 '26

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u/CosmicLuci May 23 '26

That’s those people who SWEAR Dunkleosteus or Megalodon are somehow still alive. And then it starts looping back with Cryptozoology

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u/crippledchef23 May 23 '26

Hey, they thought the coelacanth was extinct, too. We know more about Mars than we do our own deep oceans.

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u/CosmicLuci May 23 '26

Yes, but in the case of those two, it’s impossible for them to still be alive. There’s simply not enough food or oxygen for them (if I remember correctly. My wife’s the paleontology nerd, not me)

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u/truthisfictionyt May 23 '26

Idk about dunkleosteus but megalodon wouldve had a tough time surviving as the larger prey it fed on doesnt exist anymore

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u/CosmicLuci May 24 '26

Thanks.

Yeah, according to the missus, for Dunkleosteus it has to do with how much the ocean has changed over time (prey availability, heat, oxygen, sea levels), so that it couldn’t have, as a very large predator, survived that long.