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Sensational Sharks
Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery; Illustrated by Katie Melrose
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R293
Discovery Miles 2 930
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Sensational Sharks is the first book of a brand-new picture-book
series from Team Flannery that deep-dives into some of the most
beloved and surprising creatures around the world! Â
Have you ever heard about the cookie-cutter shark, which bites out
cookie-shaped morsels of flesh from much larger animals than
itself? Or the goblin shark, which was thought to have become
extinct 100 million years ago until a living specimen was
discovered in 1898? And did you know that the whale shark has jaws
the size of a 12-year-old child? Â Come along on an exciting
expedition with the world-renowned scientist and explorer Tim
Flannery and his daughter Emma, as they spotlight some of the
world’s weirdest and most fascinating creatures. Â
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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