10 humans in length, weighing 50 small cars, and with a bite that could take out two of you in one bite. This beast was BIG. But if Megalodon was so mighty, why did it disappear? Tim Flannery and his daughter Emma have written a book about the mystery of the giant extinct shark, and he joins Natasha Mitchell with two other fossil aficionados, palaeontologists Erich Fitzgerald and Cheng-Hsui Tsai, to take you into a very different watery world of wilderbeasts. Speakers:Professor Tim Flannery Paleontologist, conversationist, climate change advocate Co-author, Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived (Text Publishing, 2024)Dr Erich Fitzgerald Senior Curator in Vertebrate Paleontology, Museums Victoria Author, Triceratops: A Natural History (Museums Victoria, 2022)Associate Professor Cheng-Hsui Tsai Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology National Taiwan University
10 humans in length, weighing 50 small cars, and with a bite that could take out two of you in one bite. This beast was BIG. But if Megalodon was so mighty, why did it disappear? Tim Flannery and his daughter Emma have written a book about the mystery of the giant extinct shark, and he joins Natasha Mitchell with two other fossil aficionados, palaeontologists Erich Fitzgerald and Cheng-Hsui Tsai, to take you into a very different watery world of wilderbeasts. Speakers: Professor Tim Flannery Paleontologist, conversationist, climate change advocate Co-author, Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived (Text Publishing, 2024) Dr Erich Fitzgerald Senior Curator in Vertebrate Paleontology, Museums Victoria Author, Triceratops: A Natural History (Museums Victoria, 2022) Associate Professor Cheng-Hsui Tsai Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology National Taiwan University