â??Like a locomotive with a mouth full of butcher knives.â?
That is how a shark expert, Matt Hooper, described Carcharodon megalodon to the police chief in Peter Benchleyâ??s novel â??Jaws.â? He was referring to the 50-foot-long, 50-ton body and enormous six- to seven-inch-long teeth that made the extinct megalodon shark perhaps the most awesome predator that has ever roamed the seas.