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Shark researchers size up real ‘Megalodon’ for first time – BBC News
A study reveals true scale of the prehistoric mega-shark made famous in Jason Statham’s The Meg.
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How a human diver would have compared to the real Meg
The enormity of a prehistoric mega-shark made famous in Hollywood films has finally been revealed by researchers.
Until now, only the length of the Otodus Megalodon, as featured in the 2018 film The Meg, had been estimated from fossils of its teeth.
However a team from Swansea and Bristol universities have combined maths with nature to reveal just how big it was.
The study has been published in …
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