Is a blue whale bigger than a Megalodon?

The blue whale is the biggest living being alive today and it is far larger than any megalodon. The blue whale can grow upwards of 100 feet long and weighs more than 110 tons.
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Is anything bigger than a blue whale?

While there might never be a larger animal than the blue whale, there are other kinds of organism that dwarf it. The largest of them all, dubbed the “humongous fungus”, is a honey mushroom (Armillaria ostoyae).
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Which is bigger whale shark or Megalodon?

Megalodons are a little longer and significantly heavier than whale sharks. Although whale sharks hold the title for largest shark alive, megalodons hold the title for largest shark ever.
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Is there a shark bigger than the blue whale?

Just as the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest living mammal*, the whale shark is the largest species of any fish, known to reach more than 40 feet in length. Besides sharing the title of biggest among their kind, the blue whale and whale shark have something else in common. They are both filter feeders.
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Who will win megalodon or blue whale?

A megalodon would win in a fight against a blue whale using it's powerful bite and speed.
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Megalodon vs Blue Whale: Who's the Sea Giant



Can blue whale eat megalodon?

Nope. Megalodon ONLY reached 15 meters and weighs 30–50 tons. Blue Whale weighs 4 times as much and had blubber and was smarter.
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Is jaws bigger than megalodon?

REAL ancient mega-shark the megalodon that was three times bigger than Jaws with teeth as 'big as a hand' is brought back to life in action film The Meg. IT was the mega-shark three times the size of a great white, with each of its 270 teeth as big as a hand.
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How big was Deep Blue?

Deep Blue is a female great white shark that is estimated to be 6.1 m (20 ft) long and is said to be over fifty years old. The shark was first spotted in Mexico by Mauricio Hoyos Padilla, a researcher. Deep Blue has been featured on the Discovery Channel's Shark Week.
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Is a megalodon a dinosaur?

The dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago. Megalodons came later. The oldest megalodon fossils are from the Miocene Epoch, which began 23 million years ago. 3.
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What is the 2nd largest sea creature?

Coming in at second place—the fin whale is the second-largest species on Earth. Sometimes referred to as the 'greyhounds of the sea,' the fin whale can swim at astonishing speeds of up to 45 kph. And, with such large stomachs to fill—the fin whale can eat up to 2000 kg of krill every day!
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What was bigger than a Megalodon?

When it comes to size, the blue whale dwarfs even the largest megalodon estimates. It's believed blue whales can reach a maximum length of 110 feet (34 meters) and weigh up to 200 tons (400,000 pounds!). That's more than twice the size of even the largest megalodon size estimates.
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Is there a dinosaur bigger than a blue whale?

Australotitan Cooperenses: Largest Dinosaur Species Bigger Than Antarctic Blue Whale Discovered. Paleontology experts confirmed that Australia's largest dinosaur species had been discovered, and it is much larger than the biggest living animal on the planet.
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Was jaws a megalodon?

A new study from the University of Bristol and Swansea University has calculated the total body size of the Otodus megalodon - the distant ancestor of the great white shark depicted in hit blockbuster, Jaws, in 1975.
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Are megalodons real in 2021?

Megalodon is NOT alive today, it went extinct around 3.5 million years ago.
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Can megalodon still exist?

But could megalodon still exist? 'No. It's definitely not alive in the deep oceans, despite what the Discovery Channel has said in the past,' notes Emma. 'If an animal as big as megalodon still lived in the oceans we would know about it.
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Is Deep Blue still alive?

This massive great white shark is said to be around 50 years old. Researchers say that she will continue to grow in size over time, though at a much slower pace than before. As with most female great whites and great white sharks in general, Deep Blue has an estimated life expectancy of around 70 years.
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How big was Jaws the shark?

In "Jaws," the fictional shark is said to be 25-feet in length and approximately 3 tons. It is unknown at this time how much the shark weighs.
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Is Deep Blue bigger than Jaws?

If Quint is right, then the shark in Jaws is five feet – say, one Danny DeVito – longer than Deep Blue. No offence to Mr DeVito, but not a huge difference. But what about weight? Quint reckons his shark weighs three tons – and in 1975 in the US a ton means 2,000 pounds (lbs).
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Who killed Jaws?

The shark breaks free and leaps onto the boat, devouring Quint in the process. Trapped on the sinking vessel, Brody shoves a pressurized scuba tank into the shark's mouth and climbs onto the crow's nest. He shoots the tank with Quint's rifle, killing the shark with the resulting explosion.
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What hunted megalodon?

There are many animals that could beat megalodon. Some say megalodon ate Livyatan but it was an ambush predator and Livyatan might have eaten it too. The modern sperm whale, fin whale, blue whale, Sei whale, Triassic kraken, pliosaurus and colossal squid could all beat the megalodon.
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What if megalodon was still alive?

For starters, if megalodon sharks still roamed our oceans, the last place they'd be going would be the Mariana Trench! Megalodons were warm water mammals, so the frigid temperatures of the Mariana Trench would make it impossible for them to survive there.
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Is Godzilla bigger than a blue whale?

This is why, as the team concluded, blue whales must never have evolved beyond a maximum length of 82 feet and weight of 330,000 pounds, never mind Godzilla proportions. The outsize lizard's latest iteration would be about 394 feet tall and weigh a staggering 164,000 tons.
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What is stronger than a megalodon?

Animals like the Blue Whale and Aust Colossus would defeat a Megalodon. Livyatan could beat a Megalodon, and so on.
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Who would win titanoboa vs megalodon?

Megalodon would win a fight against Titanoboa. The monster snake is a one-trick pony, and that trick isn't any good against a massive shark. Even if it managed to wrap about the shark, it's much too small to kill it. Megalodon was about 9 feet across and weighed 100,000lbs.
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What is the friendliest shark in the world?

The leopard shark is the first on our list of least dangerous shark species to be utterly harmless to humans.
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