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Select the statement that accurately summarizes why the megalodon went extinct.
Increased competition for food and territory.
Humans started to hunt the megalodon for its fins.
A decrease in territory meant mass migration to other oceanic environments.
Climate change caused the ocean waters to become too cold.
An increase in more evolved sharks left the megalodon without mates.
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Climate change caused the ocean waters to become too cold.
Evidence points to Pliocene cooling and changing ocean circulation shrinking warm-water habitats and reducing prey (marine mammals), which likely drove megalodon to extinction. Competition may have been a secondary factor, but human hunting did not play a role.
Evidence points to Pliocene cooling and changing ocean circulation shrinking warm-water habitats and reducing prey (marine mammals), which likely drove megalodon to extinction. Competition may have been a secondary factor, but human hunting did not play a role.
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