in the trailer of Megalodon 2: The Great Abyss we see how a megalodon devours a tyrannosaurus rex as if it were a snack. The food chain goes further in the new blockbuster starring Jason Statham due out in August.
It is worth clarifying that never in history could there have been a fight between a T-Rex and a megalodon, since About 46 million years elapsed between the extinction of one and the appearance of the other.. First came the dinosaur, then the marine giant.
The industry, however, is somehow right in its fantasy. The monster shark had a physical build much larger than that of the T-Rex. The megalodon was about 16 meters long and weighed 60 tons, while the dinosaur was 12 meters long x 4 meters high and weighed about 9 tons.
Beyond this physical difference, the predatory abilities of both were terrifying: their teeth crushed almost everything, their victims were similar, they committed cannibalism, they had overwhelming strength, their appearance was frightening.
According to research from Florida State University, the tyrannosaurus could chew with a force of about 3,600 kilos when chewing and the megalodon 11,000 kilos (humans chew with a force of 77 kilos).
A fake documentary?
While the Megalodon franchise currently distributed by Warner Bros. popularized the sea monster that disappeared about 3.6 million years ago, the creature had already caused terror in a 2013 Discovery Channel “documentary” titled Megalodon – the monster shark lives.
The show speculates that the creature is still inhabiting the depths of the ocean and causing terror among marine animals.. Meg, the first film in the series released in 2018, used this theory to install her beast in the Pacific.
Megalodón: the monster shark lives was broadcast in the channel’s “Shark Week”, reaching the largest audience in the 26-year cycle with approximately 4.8 million viewers.
It is, in general terms, the investigation into an attack on a fishing vessel off the coast of South Africa that left no survivors. The narrative suggests that the megalodon may have been the culprit.
Now, the controversy surrounding his broadcast was as big as his audience: it was all fiction. The monster shark doesn’t live on the bottom of the ocean..
The channel was going to announce it as a documentary, but everything was staged and built for the occasion. In this sense, the most critics have aimed against the credibility of Discovery by discussing the issue without having real evidence of the existence of the Megalodon.
For example, a whale appears in the program impostor the one with the tail allegedly bitten off near Hawaii and a fake fishing boat allegedly disappeared, as well as several actors posing as real professionals.
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“Discovery Channel is not run by stupid people, this wasn’t some kind of mistake. Someone deliberately decided to present a more appropriate work of fiction for the SyFy (Sci-Fi) channel as a true and truthful documentary. This is disgusting,” the actor said at the time. wheaton in a blog.
Christie Wilcoxof Discover magazine, wrote that “the evidence (in the show) was fake, the stories made up, and scientists cast the actors. The notion that megalodon could roam the ocean is completely a myth.”
“It’s the quintessential ‘Shark Week’ fantasy,” he defended himself. Michael Sorensen, Senior Director of Programming at Discovery. “They’ve been swirling around stories for years, and with 95% of the ocean unexplored, who knows?”
At the end of the special, The discovery included three disclaimers AND clarified that none of the institutions or agencies featured in the film are in any way affiliated with the network.
He also stated that although some events or characters in the film were “dramatised”, accounts of the “submarine” continue to this day.
“Megalodon was a real sharkThe discovery informed viewers. “Legends of a giant shark persist around the world. There is still discussion about what it could be.”
The main goal of Shark Week is to get viewers excited about sharks and the ocean and get them concerned about conservation efforts.
Source: Clarin
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