
The cooling of the surroundings led to the extinction of the megalodon in numerous ways. As the sharks were adapted to warm tropical conditions and when the cooling of the earth started it led to change in their living conditions of which they weren’t prepared for as they were habitual of the warm waters. The animals on which they preyed upon died soon after the phase resulting in the starvation of these enormous sharks. And because of all the change in the surroundings, they started moving towards the shore and that was the point from where their extinction started.