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Published: 2020-06-24 13:41:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 893; Favourites: 79; Downloads: 0
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Hiroshima Prefecture, Miocene (about 16 million years ago). A 50-ton predator attacked a group of baleen whalesΒ Parietobalaena yamaokai. It is believed that Carcharocles megalodon, like a great white shark, attacked the victim from below, but did not aim at the soft parts, but first of all deprived the prey of mobility, biting its tail fin.Related content
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Vertical breaching attacks are actually a False Bay speciality in great whites, and not normal hunting behaviour. They still like to attack from below, but at a much shallower angle. Thus the depiction of near-vertical attacks in large extinct marine predators is actually not realistic.
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