Megalodon Competition

One of the fiercest aquatic carnivores to roam the Earth and as big as 15 to 17 meters long it lived from the Late Oligocene to Early Pleistocene Era where the Megalodon lived in cold waters as the ice sheets have started to very slowly form from the cold waters of the Arctic but the Megalodon lived worldwide. Although being on top of the food chain the Megalodon also had competition which was the Odontocenti which consisted of raptorial sperm whale and squalodontis which were also apex predators at the time. The competition could have been one of the reasons the Megalodon went extinct due to the competition taking all of the food and causing the Megalodon not to get enough food which made it slowly die off having the competition take over
The Megalodon went through punctuated equilibrium due to seeing no changes for a while and only sudden big changes coming from the Megalodon which are the two factors of punctuated equilibrium. The megalodon has passed on its many genes throughout the sharks of the modern day world. This included strong skin because the Megalodon would sometimes get into fights and as the wound healed they turned into scar tissue which made the skins harder, it also passed on its sharper teeth because it’s prey started to get harder to bite into so it had to adapt by making its teeth sharper, and one more is fins for swimming faster because the prey started to get faster over time to avoid getting eaten so the Megalodon had to adapt by swimming faster and stronger to catch up to the prey. This how you see all the modern day sharks strong skin, sharp teeth, and quick swimmers. The Megalodon didn’t have many predators just some other apex aquatic species that it competed with for
Natural disasters in the era that the Megalodon lived in was climate change due to the ice caps, dry winds that pick up moisture so if it were to roll through an area with plants it would take the moisture with disturbed the water balance these dry winds could also so through plantless area and would pick up powdered Earth that would cause dust storms, there were also monsoons that would affect the herbivores and plants in the area of the monsoon causing the herbivores and plants to thrive due to the plants growing rapidly, tornados and hurricanes were also a issue back then, fires in forests and grasslands that were also an issue burning down food for herbivores and also killing them, and mountain disasters such as rock falls, landslides, and mudslides that would crush any animal poor enough to be in the path of the falling objects these would also destroy certain environments. Megalodon eat whales, dolphins, turtles, seals, dead animals and other