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TOP 10 Megalodon
关于巨齿鲨的十大真相
NUMBER 10: The work megalodon derives from Greek, meaning "giant tooth".
第十：Megalodon一词源于希腊语，意为“巨型牙齿”。
The shark's full scientific name is Carcharocles megalodon.
这种鲨鱼的全称是巨齿鲨。
NUMBER 9: Megalodon was the largest fish that ever lived.
第九：巨齿鲨是有史以来最大的鱼。
The largest individual is meaured up to 58.7 feet or even larger.
最大的个体长达58.7英尺，甚至更大。
That's about three times as big as the largest sharks in the ocean today.
大约是今天海洋中最大的鲨鱼的三倍。
NUMBER 8: It's thought that megalodon ate 2,500 pounds of food per day.
第八：据说巨齿鲨每天要吃掉2500磅的食物。
NUMBER 7: Most fish are exclusively cold-blooded, but megalodon may have been like today's great white sharks, which are considered partially warm-blooded because of the heat they generate while swimming.
第七：大多数鱼类都是纯冷血动物，但巨齿鲨可能就像今天的大白鲨一样，因为它们在游泳时会产生热量，所以被认为是部分温血动物。
This would have allowed them to hunt in colder waters.
这将使它们能够在较冷的水域狩猎。
NUMBER 6: Female megalodons may have been about twice as large as the males.
第六：雌性巨齿鲨可能是雄性的两倍。
Even an infant megalodon was huge, at least 6.6 feet from nose to tail.
即使是幼年巨齿鲨也是巨大的，从鼻子到尾巴至少有6.6英尺长。
NUMBER 5: Because of its size, megalodon was an apex predator in the ocean.
第五：因为它的体型，巨齿鲨是海洋中的顶级捕食者。
It preyed upon fish, whales, dolphins, seals, and other marine animals.
它捕食鱼类、鲸鱼、海豚、海豹和其他海洋动物。
NUMBER 4: Even though megalodons and dinosaurs are both extinct, they never co-existed.
第四：尽管巨齿龙和恐龙都灭绝了，但它们从未共存过。
The dinosaur died out about 66 million years ago, while the oldest megalodon fossils are from the Miocene epoch, which began 23 million years ago.
恐龙大约在6600万年前灭绝，而最古老的巨齿鲨化石来自于2300万年前的中新世。
NUMBER 3: Fossil remains of the megalodon have been found off the coast of every continent except Antarctica.
第三：巨齿龙的化石遗骸在除南极洲以外的都有大陆的海岸都有发现。
Between 2007 and 2009, researchers collected a number of juvenile megalodon teeth in the waters off the coast of Panama.
2007至2009年间，研究人员在巴拿马海岸附近海域收集了大量幼年巨齿鲨的牙齿。
They believe this was an ancient nursery area.
他们认为这是一个古老的育儿区。
NUMBER 2: Since sharks don't have bones, most of what we know about megalodon comes from it's large fossil teeth.
第二：由于鲨鱼没有骨骼，我们对巨齿鲨的大部分了解都来自于它巨大的牙齿化石。
The largest megalodon tooth ever found was 6.9 inches long.
迄今发现的最大的巨齿鲨牙齿有6.9英寸长。
That's almost three times longer than the average tooth of a modern great white shark.
这几乎是现代大白鲨平均牙齿长度的三倍。
NUMBER 1: With a mouth nearly ten feet wide, megalodon may have had the most powerful bite of all time.
第一：巨齿鲨的嘴有近10英尺宽，可能拥有有史以来最有力的咬合力。
