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#Megalodon’s body shape was closer to a lemon #shark
Shimada et al concluded, because the trunk section of Belgian specimen measured 11m, the head and tail were probably about 1.m and 3.6m long, respectively, with a total body length of 16.4m (54ft) for this particularly specimen. That means the Danish megalodon specimens could have been as long as 24.3m (80ft). As for body shape, taking new length estimates into account, #lemonshark appears to be closest modern analogue.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Ars Technica · Study: Megalodon’s body shape was closer to a lemon sharkBy Jennifer Ouellette

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Once a year my employer has its backlist bargains sale, allowing me to scoop up some amazing books at a great discount. This year's haul was contained to How #Birds Evolved and Nature's Temples: A Natural History of Old-Growth #Forests from @princetonupress, and Big Meg: The Story of the Largest, Fiercest and Most Mysterious #Shark from Penguin Books #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Evolution #Ornithology #Ecology #Trees #Megalodon #Paleontology #Palaeontology

Tech ppl! My #Moshidon push notifications have stopped working (Android 13). I run #Megalodon on another phone, push Nots work fine. I have 2 #Mastodon accts in both apps.

2ndary issue: my other acct (on lor.sh) has a permanent mark as read icon in the app notifications panel which prevents the number of new Nots showing on the icon in the bottom menu. This is in both apps (different phones).

Both issues began to happen after I installed #ntfy to test #Fedilab Nots. I have uninstalled both.

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@jdheyburn

Did you ever get a reply to this? For many months now, maybe as far back as when you reported this, I've had trouble under Android where you coming messages do not get a badge on the Android desktop and do not make a noise.

I have relevant notification settings turned on in Megalodon, and when I first set it all up it did work with notifications. They just one day stopped, and I don't remember precisely when, nor do I know whether it was caused by Android or Megalodon.

When I have new or waiting messages, I cannot see the badge number on the desktop, nor does the arrival of new messages make a sound.

I hear incoming messages on my Linux desktop when operating inside a Chrome client, but the Megalodon client app on my phone used to get them, too, and now does not.

One thing that people posted on Mastodon early on was NOT to reply to posts so as not to engage in any conversations.

Please forgive me for replying to a PUBLIC post on a shared SOCIAL media platform.

Does that make any sense? There are other communication tools to talk to your friends and family. There are also various apps where it's just you and your thoughts. You could set your post to UNLISTED, too.

A stern reminder that all centralised social media platforms are owned by fickle billionaires that enforce arbitrary rules whenever they feel like it.

It's not a corporation. It's not a board of suits. It's just one individual that tolerates your existence for as long as you hold some kind of value. They can use you and ban you how and when they want.

Decentralised networks are the future.