Big Meg

The Story of the Largest, Fiercest and Most Mysterious Shark

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Emma Flannery

▪Tim Flannery

Verlag:

Penguin Random House

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 4L2YGWV

EAN: 9781804992265

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Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Mi, 12.08.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 23.40

Beschreibung

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 renowned palaeontologist Tim Flannery tells 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.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Emma Flannery
Tim Flannery

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Format

Buch (Softcover)

Detailformat

Taschenbuch

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