15 Sea Creatures That Are Scarier Than Megalodon

Children are born curious and sometimes that curiosity leads them to science.Through science many amazing discoveries have been found, from oceanic monsters that lived tens of millions of years ago to a pretty sounding shark that roams the seas today. Keep watching to see an ocean killer that was named for an author and an adorable sea creature should belong in a children’s book and not on this list, but it is in fact on this list. With every new discovery we learn more and more about the world around us and it's as fascinating as it is frightening.

Megalodon is an extinct shark whose fossilized jawbones when opened a fully grown person could stand within its jaws. With a mouth nearly 10 feet wide, megalodon may have had the most powerful bite of all time. It could eat several people in one gulp. It's thought that megalodon ate at least 2,500 pounds of food per day, mostly fish, whales, dolphins, seals, and other marine animals. The female megalodons, it is believed, were twice as large as the males. Even the infants were at least six and a half feet long. Fossils of the megalodon have been found off of every continent except Antarctica.These killer beasts are the largest sharks ever recorded and they are terrifying.Sharks don't have bones, most of what we know about megalodon comes from its large fossil teeth that were almost 7 inches long. For the longest time they were considered the scariest monsters in the sea, but not anymore.

Here are 15 Sea Creatures That Are Scarier Than Megalodon

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Starting our list is the Titanoboa.

Sixty million years ago, in the swampy waters of Colombia, lurked a serpent. It’s name literally means “titanic boa”. Seriously it was a giant 50 foot long 25 hundred pound snake called the Titanoboa. Think Anaconda on steroids.
Its powerful muscles allowed the Titanoboa to move about on land, while the buoyancy of water allowed this snake to grow to massive sizes. The snake would use this combination to grab an animal, most likely another large beastly creature, and drag it into the water, drowning it. Thought to be an ancestor of the boa constrictor or the anaconda, the Titanoboa was a gigantic constrictor snake. Like most snakes, they were expert ambush predators, more than capable of striking its prey at incredible speeds and accuracy.

During this time in history, the world was much warmer, this makes it much easier for these snakes to keep their body temperature up, creating longer and more robust growth spurts. How and even why these monstrous creatures went extinct remains unknown. Fossils have given us some information about the environment they lived in, but not enough to be definitive. Think about that will you, the 15th creature scarier than Megalodon, is a colossal snake. Not freaked out yet? You will be, Let’s move on.

At number 14 is the Helicoprion.

Sounds terrifying, doesn’t it, like something out of the Iliad by Homer? It actually was quite terrifying, because it had a 360-degree circular saw shaped spiral tooth structure and a jaw that resembles a miter saw, with 4 inch extremely sharp teeth. Young Helicoprions have two of these blades of teeth, while the adults have four. They slip into the jaw the way a knife slips into a block. Sharp enough to cut a person in two. These are sharks, after all.
But the interesting thing besides the fact that this is the only jaw structure of its kind to ever be discovered. The only evidence that we have of what they may have looked like, are the teeth, We don’t have any bone fragments or even a solid outline of the shape of this creature, so it’s natural for us humans to imagine it as some mutant creature from a horror movie.

The tooth whorl which is what they were called had two functions. The outer part anchored the teeth for biting and the upper jaw was used to guide food into the animals’ stomach. Together they were used to cut their prey in half. Because there was no real wear and tear on the fossilized teeth, scientists concluded that they must have eaten softer and chewier animals like sliced squid and fish. When the animal closes its mouth on its dinner, the spiral of teeth rotate backward and slashed through its prey.

Lucky or maybe unlucky for us, these animals went extinct 230 million years ago, but I imagine if they were alive today, they would be a very popular exhibit at the aquarium.

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