Digital Vision./Digital Vision/Getty Images. The Kalahari Desert is a vast arid grassland that reaches into three African nations -- Botswana, Namibia and South Africa -- and encompasses an area of approximately 360,000 square miles. Due to this great range and the seasonal and geographic variations in water and temperature, the Kalahari has a rich and diverse ...
Massive Sea Creature Attacks, Kills And Eats A 3 Meter Long Great White Shark. Terry Goss, via Wikimedia Commons. According to Australian scientists, a tagged 3-meter-long (9 foot) great white shark was killed and eaten by an even bigger predator, most likely a âcolossal cannibal great white sharkâ Gizmodo reports.
Despite our fascination with this enormous, extinct relative of todayâs great white shark, thereâs still a great deal we donât know about the life and death of the biggest shark that ever lived. For starters, we still donât know why the last of the megatooths died over 2.5 million years ago. In the entire history of cartilaginous fish, Carcharocles megalodon was a huge success story. And thatâs not just because of the predatorâs size and inferred ferocity. This species patrolled the coasts of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans for about 20 million years. Few creatures can claim such a record.