Check It Out: Travel back in time with week’s titles By Jan Johnston
Share: Jan Johnston is the Collection Development Coordinator for Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries. Email her at readingforfun@fvrl.org. Photo
This week’s column has a decidedly prehistoric theme but not because I’m feeling old (ha-ha). Did you know that June 15 is National Megalodon Day? What is a megalodon? It was a shark, a really, really big shark that cruised the Earth’s oceans several million years ago. If you think the great white shark is scary-looking, consider these numbers. According to Wikipedia, the average length of a great white is between 11 and 19 feet, and its bite could produce as much as 4,000 pounds of force. The megalodon, on the other fin, whose average length has been estimated at 34 feet with a maximum length estimated anywhere from 47 to 67 feet, and a bite force capable of producing somewhere between 24,000 and 41,000 pounds of force, makes the great white