MEGALODON VS LIVYATAN. Who Would Win?

MEGALODON VS LIVYATAN. Who Would Win?

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MEGALODON VS LIVYATAN. Who Would Win?

Megalodon and Livyatan are two of the largest and most terrifying predators to ever swim in the earth's prehistoric oceans.
The Meg is reckoned to be the largest shark this planet has ever seen. The prehistoric monster shark was three times bigger and ten times badder than a Great White shark. Its name translates to "giant tooth," and boy, this massive shark wielded the strongest bite force of any known animal on the planet.
Livyatan, on the other hand, was an enormous raptorial prehistoric whale almost as big as the Megalodon. Named after the Biblical monster called Leviathan, you bet this was a behemoth-sized whale that had its own strengths going for it.
Now, these incredible beasties have long gone extinct. But wouldn't it be interesting to imagine them squaring off in an epic battle?
Interestingly, these fearsome monstrous sea predators existed around the same time, some 20 to 12 million years ago. They shared the same ocean and were likely well acquainted with each other. Heck, they even competed for the same food and territory.
So, it would not be unimaginable that Megalodon and Livyatan once found themselves snout-to-snout somewhere in the rough deep waters.
Picture this: a voracious Megalodon on one corner and an equally ravenous Livyatan in the far corner. The battle that would ensue will undoubtedly be one for the ages. And quite frankly, it's the kind of fight I wouldn't miss for the world!
These are both formidable contenders, and I think it would be fair to assume that whichever of them got the first serious bite in would have won. But, do you think any of these qualified giants would have yielded?
Stay tuned for the full analysis of the epic fight between the feared Megalodon and the mighty Livyatan. Also, be sure to stay put for a charged and tense hypothetical fight scenario and the verdict at the end of this short video.
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Alright, so this great battle must have taken place somewhere. Yeah?
While both these enormous sea creatures ruled the prehistoric seas and probably swam in every deep ocean, fossilized fragments belonging to Livyatan were mostly discovered in Peru. This leads us to believe that the monster toothed whale frequently plied the coasts of South America; more than it ventured into other seas of the ancient world.
Fossilized remains of Megalodon have been discovered all over the world. As such, it won't be wrong to think that the territories of these two behemoths overlapped, even if briefly. And either one or the other inevitably strayed into enemy territory: whether accidentally...or on purpose.
Let's therefore imagine that the ancient oceanic battlefield was somewhere around the waters of the South American coast. It is a more likely battlefield given its abundance of huge whales, massive sharks, giant sea turtles, dolphins, porpoises, and pinnipeds. All of which the two imposing predators preyed upon.
And, although their primary food consisted of these huge marine mammals, it is likely that the juveniles of both the Megalodon and Livyatan – ill-equipped to defend themselves-- once or twice fell prey to the other.
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Well, we've already mentioned that these ancient predators were really...really big. But do you know exactly how big? And how do they stack up against each other in terms of their proportions?
When the gigantic shark was first discovered, scientists reckoned it must have been about 80 – 100 feet long. Whoa! These guys really pictured a ginormous giant-sized shark.
But the metrics didn't sound realistic.
In recent times, however, more believable numbers were released, estimating the Meg at slightly over 60 feet. Still, this made the giant shark about as long as a ten-pin bowling lane, and that's really long; any way you slice it.
Side-to-side, Livyatan measured nearly as long as Megalodon. It may have been slightly shorter in length. And contrary to what is the case when you juxtaposition present-day whales and sharks, Livyatan may have been lighter than Megalodon.
Typically, whales are larger than the sharks that are similar in length to them. The Meg, however, takes the gold in the weight contest, measuring upwards of sixty-thousand kilos compared to Livyatan's fifty-thousand.
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Notwithstanding the immense weights of both these massive prehistoric sea monsters, they were quite agile and fast swimmers. This element must have proven to be instrumental in a face-off between these titans.
I imagine that if Livyatan was anything like present-day whales, it must have been an agile swimmer as well. However, modern whales would be comparatively slower because they had to conserve much of their energy for hunting farther in the deep waters.