GIANT SHARK JAW REPLICA
83" high x 93" wide, 3 rows of teeth 3 rows on top and bottom jaws
replicas of real magolodon shark teeth.
According to the hundreds of Megalodon teeth that have been pulled from the oceans and rock beds of the world (which look much like the great white's teeth, except measure approximately 6 inches in length), the monstrous fish may have reached lengths close to 80 feet.(1) Next to the sperm whale, that would make Megalodon possibly the largest predator that has ever lived, including the land dinosaurs.
largest predator was the megatooth shark, Carcharodon megalodon. Their maximum length is widely debated, but most estimates are around 50-60 feet!
Megalodon evolved during the early Miocene epoch, about twenty million years ago, and lived until about two or three million years ago. Scientists suspect that the megatooth’s main prey were the large whales, which evolved at about the same time.
Today, the closest relative of the megatooth is the relatively puny great white shark, which seldom gets as big as twenty feet.
largest predator was the megatooth shark, Carcharodon megalodon. Their maximum length is widely debated, but most estimates are around 50-60 feet!
Megalodon evolved during the early Miocene epoch, about twenty million years ago, and lived until about two or three million years ago. Scientists suspect that the megatooth’s main prey were the large whales, which evolved at about the same time.
Today, the closest relative of the megatooth is the relatively puny great white shark, which seldom gets as big as twenty feet.
This is a replica of the largest known, complete shark tooth that has been found to date. This shark would have had a mouth so large, a human could have walked upright into it. If the relationship of the living Carcharodon (Great White Shark) tooth length to body size held true with this genus and species, this shark would have been 70 feet in length, making it the largest known carnivore that ever lived!
The tooth was discovered by Peter Larson during one of his trips to Peru, when he stumbled across it in a tire track! The original specimen is in the collection of Black Hills Institute of Geological Research.
