jet48 Posted January 8, 2007 #51 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Basking sharks and whale sharks are plankton eaters and feed on the surface dont they? I was going to say a sleeper shark, but i thought in that youtube vid I'm sure i saw more than 5 gills.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobie Posted January 12, 2007 #52 Share Posted January 12, 2007 That is soooo a basking or a whale shark agreed....it is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattshark Posted January 12, 2007 #53 Share Posted January 12, 2007 agreed....it is... It really isn't, it is too deep and the wrong shape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptorial Posted January 13, 2007 #54 Share Posted January 13, 2007 I've seen baskings and whales, but the creature in this film is definately neither. It's a sleeper for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyhomunculi Posted January 13, 2007 #55 Share Posted January 13, 2007 I dont know what a basking shark looks like but it sure is not a whale shark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jet48 Posted January 13, 2007 #56 Share Posted January 13, 2007 It really isn't, it is too deep and the wrong shape. Your right Mattshark. Besides basking and whale sharks are plankton eaters, and that shark on that vid was eating a squid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isis-999 Posted January 13, 2007 #57 Share Posted January 13, 2007 I'd go with the sleeper, It's not a meglodon they have been gone for million's of years..Beside meglodon's where suppose to be huge, That just looked like a big shark... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wsiabtwcnbs Posted January 13, 2007 #58 Share Posted January 13, 2007 have some of you ever seen a whale shark or basking shark? they are filter feeders...i think but i know that nither of those sharks eat like that May be a sleeper shark or even one of those 6 gilled shark types. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wsiabtwcnbs Posted January 13, 2007 #59 Share Posted January 13, 2007 id like to know how big that feed box was then i could probably guess i watched the vido again the shark looks bigger than i first thought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draconic chronicler Posted January 14, 2007 #60 Share Posted January 14, 2007 (edited) The whole point of this is that the Sleeper is a huge predatory shark even if more related to the Dogfish Sharks than to the Great White/Meg. If some of the accounts of huge examples are true, then a gigantic predatory shark still lives in the ocean even if it isn't a "Meg". A sixty foot "dogfish" would still a sixty foot predatory shark, even if Megaladon sounds more impressive. Perhaps the biggest predatory shark ever, is still among us, and is a Sleeper and not a Meg. Is is a miconception to believe the "biggest" anything has to be "prehistoric". The biggest animal ever is the Blue Whale. The biggest "toothed" carnivore is also alive today, the Sperm Whale, and perhaps the biggest non-plankton eating shark ever, is not an extinct meg, but a very rare, enormous Sleeper. If some of the reports are true, it may take over the Sperm Whale as the largest "toothed" predator. Edited January 14, 2007 by draconic chronicler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattshark Posted January 14, 2007 #61 Share Posted January 14, 2007 The whole point of this is that the Sleeper is a huge predatory shark even if more related to the Dogfish Sharks than to the Great White/Meg. If some of the accounts of huge examples are true, then a gigantic predatory shark still lives in the ocean even if it isn't a "Meg". A sixty foot "dogfish" would still a sixty foot predatory shark, even if Megaladon sounds more impressive. Perhaps the biggest predatory shark ever, is still among us, and is a Sleeper and not a Meg. Is is a miconception to believe the "biggest" anything has to be "prehistoric". The biggest animal ever is the Blue Whale. The biggest "toothed" carnivore is also alive today, the Sperm Whale, and perhaps the biggest non-plankton eating shark ever, is not an extinct meg, but a very rare, enormous Sleeper. If some of the reports are true, it may take over the Sperm Whale as the largest "toothed" predator. The sleeper IS a dogfish, not just related to them, however this animal is no bigger than 7m, which is big enough. There is nothing to suggest it ever reaches those sizes, even 7m is very rare. Just like most whites are not 10m long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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