Great white shark dubbed 'Big Girl' flashes her huge jaws
The mythical megalodon may now be extinct, but its vision of pure terror helps propel the myth of sharks as the ultimate aquatic predators.Long before Hollywood director Steven Spielberg made the great white shark #1 on summertime ocean frolickers’ Most Wanted lists in the thriller “Jaws,” there was the megalodon — the biggest, baddest shark ever, replete with a movie marquee moniker.
The strategic professor of paleontology at Australia’s Flinders University declares that without sharks, the earth’s marine resources “would diminish” and the oceans “would die.”As part of his research, Long went on expeditions to all seven continents to search for never-before-discovered fossils of sharks, here on earth before the dinosaurs — some 465 million years ago.
Measuring as long as 20 feet and weighing over 4,000 pounds, the great white’s bite is more powerful than any land animal today, stalking their prey similar to human serial killers. “No, they are intelligent and sentient creatures that embody the apotheosis of evolution, fishes that after 450-million years have used natural selection to continuously improve their body design — and become one of the greatest predators on the planet.
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