{"id":140977,"date":"2022-06-22T23:23:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T04:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/what-did-megalodon-eat-anything-it-wanted-including-other-predators"},"modified":"2022-06-22T23:23:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T04:23:52","slug":"what-did-megalodon-eat-anything-it-wanted-including-other-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/what-did-megalodon-eat-anything-it-wanted-including-other-predators","title":{"rendered":"What did Megalodon eat? Anything it wanted, including other predators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-did-megalodon-eat-anything-it-wanted-including-other-predators2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Princeton research shows that prehistoric megatooth sharks\u2014the biggest sharks that ever lived\u2014were apex predators at the highest level ever measured.<\/p>\n<p>Megatooth <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sharks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sharks<\/a> get their name from their massive teeth, which can each be bigger than a human hand. The group includes Megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, as well as several related species.<\/p>\n<p>While sharks of one kind or another have existed since long before the dinosaurs\u2014for more than 400 million years\u2014these megatooth sharks evolved after the dinosaurs went extinct and ruled the seas until just 3 million years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Princeton research shows that prehistoric megatooth sharks\u2014the biggest sharks that ever lived\u2014were apex predators at the highest level ever measured. Megatooth sharks get their name from their massive teeth, which can each be bigger than a human hand. The group includes Megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, as well as several related species. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}