What if Megalodon wasn’t the scariest creature that roamed the waters? What if tehre were far scarier creatures lurking at the bottom of the ocean, waiting for their meal to come along? Size doesn’t always matter and you’ll soon find out as we countdown 15 sea monsters that are scarier than Megalodon
Titanoboa Deep
in a South American jungle, an enormous snake once stalked its prey. After slinking closer and closer to an unsuspecting animal, the silent hunter would strike in a flash and snap its victim’s neck in one swift move.
Its prey didn’t even hear Titanoboa coming amid the cacophony of the prehistoric jungle 60 million years ago.
No animal had a chance! Titanoboa, the enormous serpent of legend, thrived in the tropical jungles of South America some five million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
The death of the giant reptiles left a vacuum at the top of the food chain, and Titanoboa gladly stepped up. This prehistoric species grew up to 50 feet and weighed as much as 2,500 pounds.
That’s as long as a semitrailer you see on highways and about twice as heavy as a polar bear. At its thickest point, Titanoboa was three feet wide, which is longer than a human arm.
In the tropical jungle, Titanoboa fit right in: its brown skin camouflaged it perfectly as it slunk through muddy waters.
Some scientists think it killed by constricting and asphyxiating its prey, while others argue that though it looked like a boa constrictor, and behaved like an anaconda, lurking in the shallows and ambushing unsuspecting animals with a stunning blow.
The great snake swallowed its giant prey whole — and if you had the terrifying experience of staring into Titanoboa’s mouth, you would be no exception.
It could kill you before you even screamed. Even among the massive creatures of the ancient rainforest, Titanoboa was king: it was the apex predator of its era, a creature as unquestionably the ruler of its environment as the Tyrannosaurus Rex was in its own time.
Liopleurodon Liopleurodon was a true giant of a marine reptile carnivore. Adult males could reach 25 metres long, weighing in at a staggering 150 tons. The largest teeth were 30 cm long with jaws that were 3 metres long on total skull length of 5 metres.
The flippers which could reach 4 metres – which helped power it through the water to catch even the fastest marine animals.
They lived as solitary carnivores, most likely behaving in the same way as some apex predator sharks do in their habitats – swimming at depth, and looking for silhouettes at the surface to then attack with extreme velocity and fatal impact force. No individual solitary carnivore has ever been this large or this deadly.
