Crunch. Charlie Olsson

      

      Charlie Olsson

      illustrated by Ryan Jones

      Crunch is a young,

      great white shark.

      Great white sharks have been

      swimming around the oceans for

      400 million years, give or take a few

      million years. Crunch is an apex

      predator – king of the food chain. Only

      a few other things like humans, orcas

      and giant squid are a threat to him.

      Shark Bites

      Megalodon

      Great White Shark

      Human

      He is a descendent of the

      humongous shark, Megalodon.

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      Megalodon existed approximately 50 million

      years ago. They were 20 metres long, weighed

      100 tonnes, and were the powerhouse

      predator of the entire ocean. They had the

      most powerful bite of any creature that has

      ever lived. Megalodon had a bite pressure

      of over 18 tonnes of force; enough to

      crush a family car. Many of its teeth have

      been found, some almost 20 centimetres

      long. Crunch has a bite pressure of about

      1.8 tonnes of force.

      Crunch has a dad who is more

      than twice his size.

      Mature male great white sharks grow to a length of six metres,

      and weigh approximately 2,500 kilograms. A few unconfrmed

      fishing stories claim to have caught white sharks measuring over

      10 metres in length. That is as big as a school bus!

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      Unlike people, Crunch doesn’t

      have to go to school.

      The brains of sharks have developed differently from ours.

      They are highly evolved from surviving and hunting in the

      oceans for millions of years.

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