Everyone knows about the greatest predatory fish ever to swim the seas of the planet Earth,

Carcarocles Megalodon, a shark that weighed more than five times as much as the heaviest

elephant ever recorded.

And yet, considering how much fiction has been created around the Megalodon by sources

like the Discovery Channel, some of what you think you know about it might be wrong.

We're going to find out what that is today on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid for Brian Dunning.

This is guest host Ryan Halped for Skeptoid dot com.

Sharks are a group of alasmo-ranked,

contract-thien fish that first evolved some 420 million years ago and today contains

over 470 species, which tend to be represented by a single image, a sleek, mindless,

killing machine.

This image is often typified by the Great White Shark, Carcarodon Carcarries,

the 20-foot predator capable of swimming at 35 miles per hour and responsible for the

largest number of fatal attacks on humans.

And while the Great White Shark is indeed the world's largest extent, meaning not extinct,

predatory fish, our fossil record tells us that in the past there was an even more monstrous

beast lurking in the depths.

Carcarole is Megalodon, often referred to by its species name Megalodon, meaning large tooth.

In 2013, the Discovery Channel's Shark Week released a fictional documentary called Megalodon,

the Monster Shark Lives, which purported to present evidence of the continued existence

of the prehistoric animal.

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