Month: November 2022

23 – 2.58 million years ago

In this time lived the legendary Megalodon, or Megatooth shark lived. It was the most enormous shark that ever lived, and I am glad that it doesn’t live in the Holocene age (today). One of the Megalodon’s prey is Zygophyseter, a whale with teeth, about half the size of the 50-ton Megalodon (In my opinion, Zygophyseter looks like a beluga whale). I believe that the Megalodon, who’s scientific name is Otodus megalodon, is related to Otodus obliquus, a smaller extinct shark because of one reason…

They have the same Genus!

Megalodon – Wikipedia

Otodus obliquus – Carnivora

A Brief Illustrated History of Life on Earth by Steve Parker & David West

This year in October, 30 dead turtles were found on the Fraser Coast. Soft Shell Syndrome or Metabolic Bone Disease is deadly for turtles. It is caused by not having enough light, low water temperature, and/or a bad diet or not enough nutrition. It causes low calcium in the turtle’s bloodstream, and it causes the scutes (thick horny or bony parts of a turtle’s shell) to start peeling off. The cure for this terrible disease is antibiotics. If professionals can find out what bacteria is causing the shell to become soft and vulnerable, if it isn’t too late, they can cure the turtle.

Why Is My Turtle’s Shell Soft? – TurtleHolic

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Thirty dead turtles wash up on Fraser Coast in a month but soft-shell syndrome treatment offers hope – ABC News