BIG MEG

Big Meg is big fun It s packed to the gills with gobsmacking facts insightful conjecture and personal obs from two world class scientists and explorers a megaladon of delight for any shark lover Sy Montgomery author of The Soul of an Octopus Tim Flannery scores again diving into the murky myth filled waters surrounding the world s biggest predator and surfacing with a breathless true story stuffed with astounding facts and personal experience Lucy Cooke author of Bitch and The Unexpected Truth about Animals If you are not already addicted to Tim Flannery s writing discover him now Jared Diamond author of Collapse and Guns Germs and Steel Engagingly written and a real labour of love down to the tiny fin at the bottom of each right hand page Give this book to the wannabe palaeontologist in your life MAIL ON SUNDAY Imagine a ferocious marine hunter up to twenty metres long weighing twice as much as a humpback whale and ten times more than Tyrannosaurus rex With jaws that can open two 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 also known as the Bigtooth and it