Correction

One of the comments posted yesterday mentioned awe over the megalodon tooth photo. So, just how big was this thing? Well nobody knows. But we DO know how large sharks of today are. So unless the megalodon was some kind of deformed creature with a short body and huge mouth, science has extracted this comparison diagram. The little thing that looks like a scuba diver is an average sized adult in scuba gear. That little fish is a great white shark.

And it also seems that I was a bit off. They did not die out on the last mass extinction event. As best science can tell, they were around till 1.5 million years ago. It is though that climate change relating to the ice age and warm shallow seas drying up is what did them in. Also many species of marine mammals went extinct during this same time, animals which the giant shark likely fed on. No food = no fish.

So the mass extinction 65 million years ago did not kill these things off. Had I known this yesterday I would have picked some other extinct creature.

But I have a valid excuse here. I am not a paleontologist or a bigfoot hunting, Loch Ness Monster seeking cryptozoologist.

But all this fish talk reminds me of something. I have not gone fishing in a while. So I should do that. Maybe Thursday???? Ill have to check my busy schedule and see if I can pencil in some time.