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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.

This event was presented by Melbourne Museum (Museums Victoria) and CAVEPS: Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Paleontology, and Systematics 

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

Thanks to Museums Victoria event producer Alice Gibbons, the museum’s technical team and their other colleagues.

Further information:

Melbourne Museum

600 Millions years of evolution pictured