Palaeontology calls him Carcharodon meglodon. Our modern Shark, the terror of the seas, gives an approximate idea of him, in so far as a dwarf can give an idea of a giant.


Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, The Life of the Weevil, Chapter i (p. 7), Hodder & Stoughton. nd

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Palaeontology calls him Carcharodon meglodon. Our modern Shark, the terror of the seas, gives an approximate idea of him, in so far as a dwarf can...

Palaeontology calls him Carcharodon meglodon. Our modern Shark, the terror of the seas, gives an approximate idea of him, in so far as a dwarf can...

Palaeontology calls him Carcharodon meglodon. Our modern Shark, the terror of the seas, gives an approximate idea of him, in so far as a dwarf can...

Palaeontology calls him Carcharodon meglodon. Our modern Shark, the terror of the seas, gives an approximate idea of him, in so far as a dwarf can...