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Big Meg - The Story of the Largest, Fiercest and Most Mysterious Shark (Hardcover)
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Big Meg - The Story of the Largest, Fiercest and Most Mysterious Shark (Hardcover)
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Imagine a ferocious marine hunter up to 20 metres long, weighing
twice as much as a humpback whale and ten times more than
Tyrannosaurus rex. With jaws that open three metres wide, crammed
with 276 serrated fangs, it can bite down with the greatest force
of any animal that has ever lived. This is the Megalodon, and it
once existed 3 million years ago. Next to the dinosaurs, wiped out
66 million years ago, it is but a stone's throw into our murky past
when monsters reigned. Its name means 'giant tooth' but everything
about it is gigantic: its exceptional lifespan, each stalking the
ocean deep for more than a century, and its pups, born at more than
two metres long, having likely eaten their siblings in the womb.
Marking a milestone in paleontology, in Big Meg acclaimed
conservationist, palaeontologist and explorer Tim Flannery and his
scientist daughter Emma tell the story of this enthralling great
shark for the first time - what we know about where and how it
lived, bred, hunted and died. He also shows how it continues to
fascinate us. Despite its extinction, the big meg continues to kill
a few humans each year: its victims those who dive in murky and
dangerous waters in search of its glorious, magnetically beautiful
relics. From the stories we tell about it, to the quest to uncover
more of the mystery surrounding it, this is the biography of the
ultimate apex predator and a compelling exploration of its awesome
grip on the human imagination today.
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