Anyone knowing sharks...?

[Skybird]

I know how huge whale-sharks can become (if that is what they are named in English), and I know about their white points.

I also know of what in German is called "Riesenhai" (giant shark), and saw poctures.

But what kind of monster is this? Both sharks I mentioned before do not seem to fit the visual appearance of the shark in this video:



The rumour, that Megalodons have survived somewhere deep in the pacific, persists stubbornly. In modern times, especially in Japan time and again witnesses report of having seen "incredibly huge sharks that were no whalesharks".

I do not say this is a Megalodon. I am just curious if anybody knows what this beast is.

[CCIP]

The audio track tells me it's Sharkzilla

Seriously, we're lacking a lot of details here though. I think it may definitely be true that, well, stuff is out there - the giant squid catches and a lot of new species of deep see life discovered in the Antarctic recently suggest that a lot still remails unexplored. But that video certainly doesn't tell me much.

[Happy Times]

Somebody had commented that it is a Greenland shark.

http://www.marinebiodiversity.ca/sha.../greenland.htm

[Rose]

Maybe a basking shark? They are huge sharks (but not as big as a whale shark). They feed on plankton, and are rather scary-looking .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basking_shark

[AntEater]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_sleeper_shark

Its a pacific sleeper shark, a little known deep sea shark closely related to the Greenland shark.
It can grow to huge sizes (normally 4 meters) but is rarely caught because it lives in deep waters.
The video is from 1990, and the shark was estimated to be 7 meters long, so its large for a sleeper sharks.
Apparently the giant shark was a minor sensation ("sommerloch?") in Japan in 1990 and now made a happy comeback thanks to youtube.
Back then the japanese tabloids made a megalodon out of it. Prof. Eugenie Clark (one of the world's leading shark experts) made the estimate of "23 feet".
Japanese tabloids made 23 meters out of that instead of 7, and so the Sharkzilla was born

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by AntEater

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_sleeper_shark

Its a pacific sleeper shark, a little known deep sea shark closely related to the Greenland shark.
It can grow to huge sizes (normally 4 meters) but is rarely caught because it lives in deep waters.
The video is from 1990, and the shark was estimated to be 7 meters long, so its large for a sleeper sharks.
Apparently the giant shark was a minor sensation ("sommerloch?") in Japan in 1990 and now made a happy comeback thanks to youtube.
Back then the japanese tabloids made a megalodon out of it. Prof. Eugenie Clark (one of the world's leading shark experts) made the estimate of "23 feet".
Japanese tabloids made 23 meters out of that instead of 7, and so the Sharkzilla was born

23 feet is quite big enough thank you

[danlisa]

Agreed, it's a sleeper shark. Harmless and rarely seen/photographed as they remain at depth which is why they have a 6th gill in comparison to other sharks which have 5.

Although much of the ocean is uncharted and a mystery to us, I'm sure we would have witnessed Megalodons by now.

http://www.fossilien.de/seiten/haizaehne/megalodon.htm

Man, I love sharks, they scare the sh*t out of me though.

[Happy Times]

Looks harmless.:p

http://www.jostimages.com/galerie/sh...ite-shark.html

[danlisa]

Originally Posted by Happy Times

Looks harmless.:p

http://www.jostimages.com/galerie/sh...ite-shark.html

You know? It's all good when 'Man touches Shark' but it's the 'Shark touches Man' bit that worries me.

[Rose]

This set is amazing : http://www.jostimages.com/galerie/sh...ite-shark.html

[SUBMAN1]

Megladon was known to travel into shallows in chase of its prey. It definitely does not exist in this world anymore. Seen the BC fossils though (On TV as they were being removed).

-S

[Penelope_Grey]

Megaladon CGI style.

Megladon was known to travel into shallows in chase of its prey. It definitely does not exist in this world anymore. Seen the BC fossils though (On TV as they were being removed).

I think "Known" is a very relative term, I don't think the scientific community knows jack all about what Megaladon's did. How cna they? They have barely scratched the surface into Great White habits.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by danlisa

Although much of the ocean is uncharted and a mystery to us, I'm sure we would have witnessed Megalodons by now.

And many say they have witnessed Nessie, so what? :p

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey

Megaladon CGI style.

I think "Known" is a very relative term, I don't think the scientific community knows jack all about what Megaladon's did. How cna they? They have barely scratched the surface into Great White habits.

Agreed, science especially when it deals with things of the past is a constant process. "Knowledge" about past aeons, theories about ancient species, are constantly chnaged, modified, corrected, replaced. It is just some years ago until they dropped the theory that the Great White Shark is linked to the Megalodon. Today they say both are different species that developed parallel to each other (thus the changes in their Latin names).

But a fascinating field naval biology is, and naval geography and geology as well. In the late days of my schoolyears I even considered "Ozeanographie" as an option to study at university. but although I was interested in diving, I hated and still hate swimming , soooo... . I absolutely hate swimming. Totally. Completely. If somebody wants to nget rid of me he just needs to suggest that we go swimming. Some people go swimming, others leave and never come back.