Comments by "Cestarian Inhabitant" (@cestarianinhabitant5898) on "PBS Eons" channel.

  1. That was more complicated than I expected. But imagine, if megalodons were still around, they would probably attack boats and ships, it's only because (wild) Orcas for some miraculous reason do not (ever) attack humans under any known circumstances, that we have been able to avoid needing to fight with large marine predators for dominance whenever we go out to sea on anything smaller than a tanker. (The worst that can happen is that if you're on something like a kayak or rowboat, a shark might swim up and say hi, but they're not particularly likely to actually attack) Megalodons, like sharks, would be more neutral about this, and since they would see something big floating up there, especially if we consider how scarce food is for them, they would definitely attack every ship small enough for them to chew. Now imagine how far back that would have set civilization, we wouldn't have been able to safely navigate between continents or island nations until this problem would be dealt with.
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