carcharocles megalodon

"The oceans were once full of enormous, sharp-toothed carnivores. Megalodon was the king of the sea. Even the biggest dinosaurs fled when they saw its fin break the surface. But megalodon is no more; it went extinct. Its cousin, the great white shark, is still here, but it is endangered. What will happen if these huge fish disappear? Learn about the similarities between megalodon and great whites, and what people are doing to avoid losing another giant predator"--Provided by publisher.

Terror surfaces from the deep after ocean explorers run afoul of a male and female Carcharodon megalodon--a gigantic ancestor of the great white shark long believed to be extinct--alive and well off the coast of Japan.

"Images accompany information about the megalodon. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--Provided by publisher.

"Great white, bull, and tiger sharks are some of today's most talked-about sharks. But have you met the sharks of yesterday? Each prehistoric shark had its own amazing-and sometimes strange-features. The scissor-tooth shark had teeth in a spiral shape. The giant megalodon was about three times the size of a great white. One small prehistoric shark had a big dorsal fin in the shape of an ironing board! Readers will gobble up all the facts about these early ocean hunters and learn how they compare to modern sharks"--Provided by publisher.

"Twelve years have passed since Lou Melville and her mother discovered the ruins of an ancient underwater city with billionaire Feiersinger. Now the heiress to his fortune, Lou is leading a scientific expedition researching the megalodon. It's clear the young woman has not lost her taste for exploration... but she is still unaware of her origins"--Amazon.

A day at Sardis Lake, Mississippi turns into trouble for Robbie Bridgeman and his two friends, Tara and Landon Phillips, who just want to catch "the big one" and end up catching a prehistoric shark that is over sixty feet long.

Terror surfaces from the deep after ocean explorers run afoul of a male and female Carcharodon megalodon--a gigantic ancestor of the great white shark long believed to be extinct--alive and well off the coast of Japan.

Simple text and illustrations present the life of megalodon, a giant prehistoric shark, describing what it looked like, its habitat, and behavior.

"Provides a revealing look at the prehistoric Mega Shark through a fictional graphic novel story, accompanied by nonfiction facts and fossil record information"--Provided by publisher.

Introduces the megalodon, a prehistoric shark that was up to sixty feet long, and describes how scientists learned about this animal through fossils found around the world.