Conspiracy Theory #2: Is the Megalodon still alive?

Conspiracy Theory #1
Is the Megalodon still alive?

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What is a Charcarodon Megalodon?

All sea creatures feared these things, even the dinosaurs did. The Megalodon, the largest shark on the planet which would grow up to 60 feet (20 metres) in length, was at the top of the food chain 65 million years ago. It lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epoch and ruled 3/4 of the Earth's water for at least 16-20 million years.
 It was a demon straight from hell; with a body built for speed, accuracy and kill, not to forget the million teeth that measured around 7-9 inches in length. The largest Megalodon jaw to be assembled was 11 feet wide and 9 feet tall. 

Why did large dinosaurs, the T-Rex for instance, fear this cute little thing? Mainly because this monster ate 70 feet long whales for dinner.

The Megalodon's diet consisted mainly of large whales (Leviathan), but also included a variety of dolphins, giant turtles, squids, fish and occasionally, terrestrial dinosaurs that came in for a drink. Fossilized evidence dating back a few million years ago prove that the Tyrannosaurus Rex was actually a common meal to many Megalodons. An average daily meal would include 2500 pounds of meat.

Unlike many other prehistoric creatures, the Megalodon family was globally distributed. They were found in every nook and cranny, including modern day lakes and rivers. They usually migrated off to warm waters during winters to feed on Leviathans. With this attitude, nothing could have stopped the Megalodon from climbing onshore and munching off everything in sight, except it's weight of course. If washed ashore, it's weight would crush itself with the inability to sustain land pressure.

Where did it go? 

Not long after 20 million years, the Megalodon activity decreased. It was like they were wiped off the planet's surface, just after the dinosaurs had disappeared. Although there is no possible explanation as to how this had happened, scientisst have thought of the major possibilities.

◘When global cooling took place (which resulted in the previous Ice Age) the Megalodons would have not been able to survive the cold and eventually died out. 

◘A defect in diet. The giant whales, the ones who provided the Megalodon all the necessary and relevant nutrients could have died out in number, ultimately resulting in the giant sharks to die of starvation. 

◘When nature introduced the new kid in class: The prehistoric Orca whale. The Orca back then would have been hardly a few feet larger than the Megalodon but would have been a tough competition to it, eventually winning and letting the Megalodon face the wall of shame.

Reports of sightings

"* The HMS Challenger was a British survey skip tasked with completing the first global marine expedition ever. In 1872 it dredged up Megalodon teeth from the Mariana Trench, which were later dated to be about 10,000 years old. This is a far cry from the 1.5 million years or so that mainstream science tells us Megalodon has been gone. It's hard to think the shark would have lasted a couple of million years longer than previously believed, but 10,000 years? That's hardly a blip in geological time. Does this mean Meg could still be out there?

* In 1918 a group of Australian fishermen were so petrified by what they had seen in the water that they refused to go back out to sea. These fishermen were well acquainted with large White Sharks and other ocean creatures. So what could they have seen that terrified them so much? What they described was an almost unimaginably big white shark, at least 100 feet in length, which ate their catch and destroyed their fishing gear. What did they really see? If not a Megalodon, it's hard to imagine what else it might have been.

* In 1960 the captain of a fishing ship reported a massive white shark that swam alongside his vessel. The crew was so shaken by the appearance of this fish that they refused to discuss it, and if not for this captain we may never know the story. The length of his ship was over 78 feet.

* In 2009 the History Channel show MonsterQuest conducted a search for the Megalodon in the Sea of Cortez. This was a follow up to reports of massive sharks in the area, up to three times the size of a Great White, that were demolishing local marine mammals. It is speculated that the Sea of Cortez is deep enough and contains more than enough large food sources to support a remnant population of Megalodon. Unfortunately, the MonsterQuest team struck out."

*Text Credit: http://www.squidoo.com/megalodon-shark-sightings-is-megalodon-alive-today

Relating Site: http://www.incredipedia.info/2012/03/eyewitness-accounts-of-megalodon.html

Related Research

A false documentary about the Megalodon was aired by Discovery Channel on Shark Week. This similar 'mockumentary' seemed as a sequel of Animal Planet's "Mermaids: The Body Found" to many. Megalodon showed animated but realistic 'footage' of attacks on submarines and strange fossils found.
Many Shark Week fans were disappointed at Discovery for releasing an utterly disturbing, and fake documentary on a channel that usually educates about factual stuff. Discovery still defends it though, and as their backup, claims that the reports of the missing submarines have not yet been solved.

Conspiracy Theory #1: The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis (AAT/H)

Conspiracy Theories #1: 
The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis (Aquatic Ape Theory)
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What is the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis? 

It's simple. 
Humans evolved from mermaids. 
Simple, see? 
Well no, not precisely. The aquatic ape theory is the most commonly ignored theory in modern day society. Even Charles Darwin, when first thought of the idea, thought he was going nuts because of aging and therefore stopped his research work on it. It was later again brought about by modern day scientists. And who you ask in specific brought this back? None other than Sir Alister Hardy.

                                                                       Sir Alister Hardy
He was a marine biologist who in 1960, spoke at the British Sub Aqua Club about the totally fictional idea about what would have happened if mermaids actually existed. Then almost a month later, an article relating to that talk was published, which went by the name "Was man more aquatic in the past?"

The Theory 
"Evolution" describes in detail that apes overtime had adapted to their new changing surroundings, thereby assuming evolution took place. Now these changes were further modified and then came the modern man. However, the AAT/H explains things from a different perspective. It suggests that during a turning phase in Earth's continental drifts, lands inhibited by prehistoric apes were prone to volcanic activity. Of course the creatures that roamed the surface of the planet then were smart enough to adapt with any sudden change, but that still doesn't explain how the large reptiles were annihilated. 
When the seismic activity increased over time, flowing lava solidified onto new grounds, taking away living space. The theory suggests that the ape colony might have split into two new ones, in order to adapt to this changing environment. One sub-colony preferred to stay on land and find ways out, while the other decided to inundate a new world; the sea. 

As much as silly as it may sound, it is not impossible. New studies reveal that the Pulmonoscorpius had evolved from sea-based genealogy. So why not us humans?

When the apes allegedly started to walk forward and deeper into the sea, they evolved with another set of marine characteristics that even some modern creatures tend to develop over a period of months, years, hours, or even seconds. These aquatic apes had also developed gills at the sides of their necks to respire, occasionally resurfacing to grasp a new mouthful of oxygen. Then next, their fingers began to web with each other and soon they had webbed hands, like how amphibians do. This allowed them to venture a little deeper into the sea, where they were able to catch fish and other marine creatures for a stable diet. The theory then says that their hind limbs had lost their ability to balance, therefore collecting all respective cells and tissue to form a perfectly lashing tail, which dared them to venture even deeper onto the sea floor where they would hide from predators. They had almost lost all their fur, too, in order for drag to not be created while swimming. This would have slowed them down and made it impossible to make an escape from predators.

 Later on followed by a few million years (keep in mind that the once lost apes had now adapted themselves into the forms of so called mermaids. Soon, the sea was a dangerous place to live in. New predators had evolved overtime and the aquatic apes were defenseless against them. Their main predator was the (allegedly extinct) Megalodon.

The Megalodon was the great white of the prehistoric era, but if compared to the modern great white, the Megalodon would make it look almost cute. This giant shark would grow up to 20 metres, the longest recorded length of a Megalodon was 35 metres excluding it's tail and dorsal fins. 
Theories suggest that half the grown population of the aquatic apes were either eaten by the Megalodon, or had died of starvation in competition with new predators for food.
Either way, the aquatic apes' ratio died out by 67%.

The other half, the theory says, were forced to flee back onto land* due to the unstable conditions in their marine life. Time was not up for evolution and therefore they re-evolved into another specie - the human kind. 

Researched Evidences

◘Humans have large sinuses. Large spaces are present between our cheeks, noses, foreheads and ears in the skull. It makes no rational sense as to why we do have this sort of feature, but the AAT/H sheds light on it by stating that this feature (sinuses) acted as buoyancy aids that helped keep our prehistoric ancestors' heads above the sea surface.
◘ Humans also have the habit of eating seafood, which is uncommon in the ape society. Perhaps this too, had developed from out ancient sea related habitat.
◘ And not to forget the biggest fact that humans can breathe through their mouths as well as their nose, both just as easy as blinking. This is most likely to have been evolved through aquatic adaptation, because a swimmer who needs to gulp in air rapidly can take in more through the mouth rather than the nose. So the only other sorts of mammals with a descended larynx (excluding us) are the aquatic ones.
◘The Moken people of East Asia have an incredible ability - to see underwater. Moken children, at a young age tend to have brighter underwater vision, as they slowly lose this ability as the grow older, thus retreating from water. This is solid evidence that the Mokens could be direct descendants of the aquatic apes.
◘Babies, when submerged underwater, tend to float on their own, see and breathe. This could be an adaptation that is slowly lost with age, but brought about by floating around in the mother's womb. Or rather, it could be another direct sign of the AAT/H.

Related Information

The theory has been taken into hands by Animal Planet, who produced a mockumentary based on the Aquatic Ape Theory called Mermaids: The Body Found. The two hour show (followed by a recently released sequel Mermaids: The New Evidence) was aired on Animal Planet as a true documentary, seeking audience to believe that every tape and found footage in the show was real. This still remains a conspiracy, and as much as experts may say the documentary is fake, the others say it is as real as you and I.

There's still time out there to discover who and what rules this planet other than us. But the AAH/T must be brought into public awareness before it dies out like another fairy tale.

The Dreadful Intro

Hello, Decky here.
I've decided on creating this new blog since I'm often bombarded with thoughts and ideas, which I'd very much like to share. And this is pretty much my very first post on this site, so I'm just going to introduce myself and write about what I do. (As much as we all hate introductions, I've no other choice alongside to start an interesting topic)

I'm an author/poetess who does a lot of book, movie, and poetry reviews alongside with researching about weird, innovative science that I am very much obsessed with. I also go to high school where I'm very talented at playing my part as a creepy, darkside-obsessed tomboy who is (not boasting or much) the main centre of attention. Well, I don't really get to fit in with some who aren't that into what I am.
Basically, I'm a result of what happens when you mix a sci-fi geek, a madhouse scientist, and a literature nerd; you end up creating a modern day, 21st century Frankenstein, who is not really that bad.

My main intention is to raise awareness about the minute detailed news that go by un-noticed. For instance, scientists have brought forward the Aquatic Ape theory into a new phase (I'm sure the majority don't know what that is, but hats off to those who do). And this so-stereotyped "weird" news is mainly ignored because of its title, when it can actually provide insights about questions that still remained unanswered.

I'll be posting a lot about new, bizarre stuff  that I often stumble across while researching. And trust me, I try my best to spread the much ignored news to the public during school days, but there are limitations I have frightening encounters with, some being my very own parents.

Until my very next post,
Cheers.