Are megalodons really extinct? There have been on going debates about the known to be extinct species of shark, megalodon. “is megalodon really extinct or has it been hiding from human eye’s for all these years?” What is megalodon? Megalodon, which means “big tooth” considering the fact that it had teeth almost reaching the height of 7 inches and about 276 teeths in 5 rows. Megalodon was the greatest and largest predator that lived during the early miocene to the end of the pliocene , that’s when it was said to have gone extinct which was almost 3.6 million years ago. Megalodon was formerly classified to the family lamnidae , making it closely related to the great white shark. However, later studies proved that megalodon is not part of the lamnidae family rather part of the otodontidae family, Otodontidae is an extinct family of sharks, belonging to the order Lamniformes . Fossils of this giant predator suggest that it reached the maximum length of 1...