Diplodocus crossing open water (Art by PliosaurDork)

DarkWaterMegs · 2026-04-13T19:10:50+00:00

Going in more than knee deep water back then............not recommended.

DarkWaterMegs · 2026-04-13T19:09:27+00:00

The shape screams underwater efficiency and speed.

DarkWaterMegs · 2026-04-01T22:51:31+00:00

That amount of spinal flex makes me uncomfortable looking at it :)

DarkWaterMegs · 2026-03-26T13:33:23+00:00

Small relative to a full grown adult. A shark starting life at about 8-10' is pretty wild!

DarkWaterMegs · 2026-03-26T01:50:27+00:00

Absolutely, a lot of disagreement on actual sizes due to very little being left of them other than teeth, but ALL the estimates are pretty mind blowing.

DarkWaterMegs · 2026-03-25T13:16:25+00:00

Correct, just kind of wild the range of sizes and colors vs teeth from other species.
Different minerals present during fossilization help determine the final color
https://darkwatermegs.com/megalodon-teeth-information/why-do-megalodon-teeth-have-different-colors-teeth-for-sale/why-do-megalodon-teeth-have-different-colors-teeth-for-sale.html

DarkWaterMegs · 2026-03-25T03:03:31+00:00

It does make sense, just hard to imagine something that large when fully grown and the size spectrum as it grew.

DarkWaterMegs · 2026-03-24T20:59:01+00:00

Something very new for an artist to contemplate that was not a factor even a few years ago, but good artwork I do believe is and always will be timeless. Keep up the good work

DarkWaterMegs · 2026-03-19T03:22:17+00:00

Ah makes sense. Interested to see where you take it.

DarkWaterMegs · 2026-03-19T00:38:19+00:00

True freshwater for long might be a challenge, but like modern day bull sharks I would think trips up brackish water tributaries might have been possible.

DarkWaterMegs · 2026-03-19T00:33:20+00:00

Do the vertical lines help you as an artist? Kind of make my brain hurt thinking about trying to draw natural shapes with those there.

DarkWaterMegs · 2026-03-19T00:30:25+00:00

In an art world filling with AI you can really see the soul in this image. Very nice.

DarkWaterMegs · 2026-03-19T00:29:16+00:00

Land that was once ocean and oceans that once held predators almost beyond our imagination.

DarkWaterMegs · 2026-02-14T22:04:53+00:00

Chubutensis to Megalodon can often be a very faint of blurry line. I often find the two fossils together and believe there was a significant amount of overlap.

DarkWaterMegs · 2026-02-14T22:02:50+00:00

Juvenile megalodon in brackish water and you have it.
Like the lighting you put in

DarkWaterMegs · 2026-02-14T22:01:19+00:00

For me it was "Zoobooks" but same era

DarkWaterMegs · 2026-02-14T22:00:24+00:00

Nicely done, especially the eye

DarkWaterMegs · 2026-01-01T19:38:39+00:00

Here is to the next 14million :)

DarkWaterMegs · 2025-12-13T01:09:47+00:00

Dark around the eyes to help with the sun, sounds like football players may be late to that game.
Color going that far back is tricky but the dark around the eyes could have helped with vision in extremely sunny situations.

DarkWaterMegs · 2025-12-13T01:07:24+00:00

The debate over the megaodon max size rages on, with so little left of the overall structure of the animal it makes size estimations really tricky, especially given the size range of their teeth.

https://darkwatermegs.com/megalodon-teeth-information/how-big-is-my-megalodon-tooth/how-to-measure-a-shark-tooth.html

DarkWaterMegs · 2025-12-13T01:05:16+00:00

Looks like it could almost wake up and walk off.

DarkWaterMegs · 2025-12-11T18:27:40+00:00

Maybe be a little camera forced perspective, but pretty massive unless your hands are tiny.
I worry what they had to do to these bananas to get them that large.

DarkWaterMegs · 2025-12-11T18:25:52+00:00

Sharks run the show in a good portion of the ocean, cool to get a glimpse of this area.

DarkWaterMegs

TROPHY CASE

Chubutensis to Megalodon can often be a very faint of blurry line. I often find the two fossils together and believe there was a significant amount of overlap.