
As the earth’s temperature was plummeting, there was a large number of animals facing extinction. These include animals such as turtles and sea birds. This dramatic event created dire consequences on the food chain at the time. The causal link between predators and other herbivores was hence disturbed.
Similarly, the megalodon species were also affected by the ‘cooling’. The inevitable changes which occurred in the megalodon’s surrounding disturbed its own predatory practices as their prey either did not survive the new waters or migrated to different places.