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Art-26 — The Leviathan in Action
Published: 2011-06-25 06:20:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 6280; Favourites: 41; Downloads: 0
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Another addition to After the Dinos saga, this is Leviathan Melvillei, a prehistoric sperm whale who terrorized the oceans during the miocene epoch and lived about 12 or 13 million years ago. This was one of the baddest creatures to ever live in the oceans because it is 40-60ft. long, weighed around 50 tons, and had teeth that were over a foot long! This prehistoric beast was able to grasp baleen whales that ranged from 23-33ft. in length in its 10ft. long jaws. This creature wasn't your typical whale, it was a toothy aggressive giant who ate anything that came across its path. There is even a possibility that it and Megalodon competed for dominance in the early pliocene. Seeing these two awesome giants battle it out would've been the sight of the millennium. It is safe to say that if this beast were still alive, every living animal in the ocean would have something to fear.Note: This leviathan has captured a baleen swimming with its group.
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finally a whale that doesn't eat krill... but I wonder about the clownfish? Great job!
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Very nice rendition of the Pliocene's most formidable mammalian predator, in fact one of the best I've seen around DA. In truth, Livyatans and Megalodons probably tried to avoid each other most of the time, save for the occasional killing of the other's young. But yes, a battle between the two would have been a truly awesome sight to behold.
BTW, due to some naming issues, the spelling of this creature's name has actually been changed to "Livyatan", which is just another word for "Leviathan".
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thanks for your kind comments, I wanted it to look as great as possible. I agree, Meg and Leviathan would try to avoid each other because that is something that is commonly seen in today's top predators. I know about them changing leviathan's name to livyatan, I just continue to spell it leviathan because most people know it that way and its easier for me to spell. But if you look up livyatan on da, you should see it under there because I assigned it that name as well.
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Well, a lot of the other renditions were done by people who don't appear to know what they're doing; artistically, they're fine, but in terms of accuracy, terrible.
Okay then, I wasn't sure.
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cool some scientist said that it could match Megalodon
and some suggest that it fed on the juveline
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I am the biggest fan of megalodon, but I do know that leviathan could match it. They were pretty much the same size and ate the same food. And yes, there is a possibility that it fed on young megs. Amazing to know that there was a creature as bad as Megalodon in the ocean that happened to live in the same time period. The only other creatures that could take on a meg is either an extremely large mosasaur or a predator x.
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Not so sure, largest megs are estimated up to 67 feet and a body mass around 100 tons. Even by more conservative regards, it is not safe to say Livyatan was as large as the great shark, the upper being 55 feet and the lower 45 feet. Also, Livyatan only lived during Miocene whereas megalodon survived until the early Pleistocene...So no, I wouldn't argue that Livyatan was necessary a match.
Mosasaurs were much slender than these two guys and Predator X, now Pliosaurus funkei, has been downsized at 10-12 m.
Beware of the hype with new big beasts...
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"(super)predator x" was a desperate overestimate and now scientists think pliosaurs were quite gracile for their size, so you'll end up with the fact that Meg was two times the size and three times the weight of the largest known pliosaur, so meg'd probably make a meal out of predator x. that should satisfy you, because you're a meg's fan as far as i'm concerned! but leviathan x megalodon fight would be a clash of titans for sure!
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that is really interesting, i know liopleurodon was greatly exaggerated, but i wasn't aware that predator x was too. where did you see this?
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on a "carnivora" forum. it wasn't just a claim, it was based on wrong proportions, because pliosaurs seem to have skull of roughly 1/5 of their full length, but the gigantic predator x was based on skull length which was 1/7 of the body length, which is a considerable difference. this is also the reason why the weight of 45 tons is invalid too. the biggest reasonably estimated pliosaur is pliosaurus brachyspondylus with length over 13 m and weight of arond 20 tons, which is not much bigger than kronosaurus
and there was an interesting bit about leviathan too, there were jigures of the reconstructed skull in comparison with a human being - just a little bait for the whale
if you look at the skull, you'll see the enormous opening for jaw muscles. it is not hard to believe that this cetacean might had the strongest bite of all known animals, but it's still only a claim
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This is mostly true, but kronosaur was actually only 9 to 10meters long. The earlier reconstruction from harvard was too big.
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really? and liopleurodon was only 5 - 7 meters long... do you remember BBC's walking with dinosaurs? xxD
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I know, ridiculous exaggerations huh?
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i wonder why did they oversized it so much, it looked like it has 5 meters long skull when it caought the eustreptosopndylus...
did they want to make people not regret there are no liopleurodons around today? if they were, they would be no bigger problem than great white sharks...
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I think some of it was for gaining publicity for the "ultimate predator", and some of it was just poor scientific estimations.
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this is the destiny orf almost all sensations... [BUSTED!]
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do you also like mythbusters like me?
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its pretty interesting, but i don't actually watch it that much cause i dont have cable.hahaaa
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i only watch them when i switch on the tv and the're there
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yeah 
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yep, that sounds about like what they were saying.lol
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