This is a fantasy setting with fantasy creatures, yet everyone is using the term megalodon to refer to a creature that the devs have never called a megalodon, only vaguely resembles what we believe megalodon's looked like, and has it's own name "The Hungering One".
{Edit: Aparently the devs have reffered to it as the megalodon on twitter and their most recent youtube video title, although it's never reffered to as that in the in-game lore.}
As far as I know Megalodon's did not have 4 eyes or near so many fins. This is a shark based fantasy creature, and it breaks the air of mystery and delight to call merricks tale of the ancient "Hungering One" a megalodon. The idea here is that it is a single creature of legend, just like the kraken(not a kraken), I understand though that this might not mesh well with fighting it multiple times or different people on different servers.
I just want to encourage people to get into the lore here, a simple story of a great and powerful terror that stirs up the sea and attacks ships in the night, the hungering one.
