By Rick Emmer
ISBN-10: 0791097773
ISBN-13: 9780791097779
Humans swimming and browsing alongside hot oceanfront seashores can leisure effortless as the Megalodon, the large cousin of the nice white shark is extinct--or is it? stick with the fossil path as scientists may be able to be sure what this giant shark appeared like, what it ate, or even the way it hunted its prey the large cousin of the good white shark from as little proof as a unmarried hand-sized fossil teeth. In Megalodon: truth or Fiction?, readers might be swept besides this investigative trip as cryptozoologists attempt to confirm no matter if this terror of the deep nonetheless lingers within the hidden depths of the sea.
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No sooner would their dory put out to sea than a large dorsal fin would appear astern of the boat. Then, as the dory sailed alone on July 9, the shark charged, smashing an [8 inch, or] 20-cm hole through the bottom of the boat. . The shark did not return after its initial—and only—strike against the boat. indd 48 1/20/10 3:28:25 PM Things that Go bump in the Night 49 Obviously, no one knows what that white shark was thinking when it attacked the dory, but there are two possible explanations.
We know this because paleontologists have discovered numerous fossils of Cladoselache in 350 million- to 400 million-year-old sedimentary rocks, known as the Devonian Cleveland shales, located near the southern shores of Lake Erie. ) This shark was about 3 feet (1 m) long, and although it lived long before the first dinosaurs roamed the land, it looked pretty much like a typical modern-day shark. indd 53 1/20/10 3:28:25 PM 54 MEGALODON: Fact or Fiction? Cladoselache had a long, streamlined body and large tail that helped it swim fast.
No wonder so many fossil teeth have been found in the southeastern United States! Approximately 3 million years ago, toward the end of the Pliocene Epoch, Earth’s climate took a turn. Temperatures worldwide cooled off, and snow and ice began to accumulate in ever-greater amounts at the poles, especially the North Pole, where huge glaciers grew and spread south. Eventually, huge sheets of ice covered thousands of square miles of land in North America, Greenland, Europe, and Asia. The Ice Age had arrived.
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