How diving as a boy took Tim Flannery on the trail of the megalodon in all its 'terrifying glory'

Tim Flannery with a model set of jaws of a megalodon at the Australian Museum, and, on right, a megalodon tooth. Photos: Text Publishing, Wikimedia Commons

With Meg 2: The Trench currently showing in cinemas – its eponymous star looking unhelpfully like an oversized great white shark – megalodons are having another pop cultural moment.

Cinema-goers may, justifiably, have questions about the accuracy of this latest representation of these prehistoric creatures. The good news is that Tim and Emma Flannery have written a book that will both thrill and inform such curious readers.