This handout picture released by Metazoa Studio on November 25, 2020, shows an artist's impression of the prehistoric shark Otodus megalodon. The largest sharks ever to have roamed the oceans parked their young in shallow, warm-water nurseries where food was abundant and predators scarce until they could assume their title as kings and queens of the sea.
But the reliance of Megalodon on nurseries may have contributed to the end of their 20-million-year reign, according to the research. Otodus megalodon -- sometimes classified as a Carcharocles megalodon -- took 25 years to become an adult -- "an extremely delayed sexual maturity", the authors said in the research paper. (Photo/Agencies)
This handout picture released by Metazoa Studio on November 25, 2020, shows an artist's impression of the prehistoric shark Otodus megalodon. The largest sharks ever to have roamed the oceans parked their young in shallow, warm-water nurseries where food was abundant and predators scarce until they could assume their title as kings and queens of the sea.
But the reliance of Megalodon on nurseries may have contributed to the end of their 20-million-year reign, according to the research. Otodus megalodon -- sometimes classified as a Carcharocles megalodon -- took 25 years to become an adult -- "an extremely delayed sexual maturity", the authors said in the research paper. (Photo/Agencies)
