Animals He was with its length of almost 20 metres and its mouth full of razor-sharp teeth of a 15 inch large the terror of the oceans in the prehistoric times. But despite the fact that he, due to his size, no real enemies had died the megalodon is between 3 and 1.5 million years ago suddenly. Scientists break itself long the head about the cause, and according to a new study would have to himself located.

The monsterhaai speaks long to the imagination, and this year was even the subject of an action movie: The Mb. He appeared around 18 million years ago, and was lord and master in the temperate seas around the world. With his gigantic size – he had a mouth that he is 2 metres could opensperren, a tail fin of 4 meters high, with a dorsal fin of up to 2 metres and a weight of more than 20 tons – was not a single marine animal safe for him. But why he disappeared?