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The Megalodon: The History and Legacy of the World’s Largest Prehistoric Predator by Charles River Editors is a book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Megalodon: The History and Legacy of the World’s Largest Prehistoric Predator about?
The current view of science is that Earth is around 4.6 billion years old. The first four billion years of its development are known as the Precambrian period. For the first billion years or so, there was no life on Earth, and then the first single-celled life-forms, early bacteria and algae, began to emerge. It’s unknown where they came from or even if they originated on this planet at all, but this gradual development continued until suddenly (in relative geological terms), more complex forms of life began to emerge.Beginning in the Triassic but especially in the Jurassic period, reptiles came to dominate the oceans, the land and even the skies. There has never been anything else quite like this period in terms of the success of a particular type of creature. For almost 200 million years, reptiles were the only significant creatures on Earth. They were so successful and so diverse that they evolved to take advantage of every available habitat, and no other type of large creature had a chance to develop.The seas, of course, were entirely different, and since water covers so much of the planet and not all of it has been explored, the world’s oceans and the creatures that live in th
- Author
- Charles River Editors
- Publisher
- Charles River Editors
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN