The advent of cryptozoology has seen many folks try to fit an increasingly unlikely and incredible field of pseudoscience into the realm of that which is quantifiable, testable, repeatable. One of the strangest examples is the continual parroting that Megalodon could still live among us in the world’s oceans because we know more about the region of space directly outside of the earth’s atmosphere than the bottom of the ocean. This is nonsense as this simple rhetorical device does not, therefore, prove the plausibility of a 60-foot shark evading human detection for a century of more. The proof many nutters have provided have turned up total bollocks, and one of the most well-known pieces, aside from photos of photoshopped fins, was the discovery of “modern” megalodon teeth at the bottom of the ocean.
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