Images Dated 16th March 2006

Megalodon shark and great white

Megalodon shark (Carcharodon megalodon), computer artwork. A great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is shown below it at the same scale. This enormous shark lived between around 20 and 1.2 million years ago, and is known from fossils. It was related to the modern great white shark, and is thought to have fed on whales, as this is the only source of food that could have provided it with enough meat. Megalodon was thought to attain lengths exceeding 20 metres, and possibly significantly larger. It is thought that it died out after the seas cooled, allowing warm-blooded whales to escape the sharks for much of the year by swimming to waters too cold for them to survive in

© CHRISTIAN DARKIN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Mr A.W. (Jack) Pearce of Lymington, Hampshire is out to beat the world horse ploughing

Mr A.W. (Jack) Pearce of Lymington, Hampshire is out to beat the world horse ploughing record of 263 firsts and 100 cups. He is 64 and in fifty years he has won 231 first prizes and championships which includes 74 cups. At the moment he is competing in everty horse ploughing match he can find. Picture shows Jack Pearce having a very welcome drink during one of his successful matches. 16th October 1957

© John Topham / TopFoto.co.uk

USA, Texas, Rio Grande Valley, Edinburgh. Northern cat-eyed snake crawling in lantana

© Dave Welling / Jaynes Gallery / DanitaDelimont.com

Animal, Avian, Color, Dangerous, Edinburg, Fauna, Flora, Flower, Habitat, Jaynes Gallery, Lantana, Leptodeira Septentrionalis, Northern Cat Eyed Snake, Plant, Poisonous, Rear Fanged, Red, Reptile, Rio Grande Valley, Snake, Texas, Us A, Venomous, Wild Life, Yellow