22+ Great White Megalodon Tooth Size Pictures. During it's reign on this earth, the megalodon was the ultimate predator of the seas, feeding on whales and other large prehistoric marine life. The idea has been, essentially, that since a great white's tooth is about 2 inches long — the biggest one ever found is 2.5 inches — and most megalodon teeth seem to be in the neighborhood of six.
Megalodon | Sharkopedia | Megalodon, Imágenes de tiburones ... from i.pinimg.com The teeth were no longer designed to slash and bleed out prey. A large great white shark measures about 20 feet long and weighs a little over 2 tons. Showing 1 to 30 of 54 entries.
The most accepted methods for estimating the length of megalodon have used great white sharks as a modern proxy, relying on the relationship between tooth size to total body length.
The most massive megalodon tooth was 6.9 inches long, which is three times longer than the average great white tooth. There have only been a handful ever found exceeding 7 inches. When estimating the size of the megalodon, scientists commonly use its contemporary lookalike (the great white shark) as an example. The great white shark is the megalodon's closest descendant but at only a fraction of the size.
