Into the Mega Jaws of Death (Episode 3.4)

***Into the Mega Jaws of Death*** is the fourth episode of Series 3 and the thirty first episode of *Prehistoric Earth: A Natural History*.

## Synopsis

In this episode, the team travels back in time to the Late Miocene to rescue the most menacing beast to ever rule the oceans - a prehistoric shark of enormous power and proportions called *Megalodon*, the largest shark of all time.

## Plot

At the park, staff member watches over many prehistoric animals that Allen rescued, especially the park's newest residents a few Indricotherium that were saved from Late Oligocene Mongolia 25,000,000 years ago. Allen heads to the park's aquarium where he watches a few staff members feeding chunks of meat to the park's resident Great White Sharks. He had idea of what animals he will rescue for their next prehistoric rescue mission. He head's to the office of his boss Joanna and tells her that he is going to dive into the sea of the Miocene to rescue the largest shark that has ever lived on the Earth called Megalodon as he shows her both the jaws a modern Great White Shark and the jaws of Megalodon. The team prepares the boat and opens the portal which they enter through and arrived in Late Miocene Peru, 15 million years ago on the rim of the Pacific Ocean.

Rebecca suggested that they should start with the juveniles first then find the adults. Allen agrees and they put their scuba suits on and dives into the shallow water to rescue the animals that juvenile Megalodon feasted on. They eventually spots a bizarre species of whale with a long tusk on one side and a smaller one on the other side called Odobenocetops which was foraging for food in the dense field of kelp. Suddenly a juvenile Megalodon appears chases the Odobenocetops. Allen and Becca opens the portal and brings a pod of Odobenocetops back to the park and had them put into the whale enclosure.

After rescuing the Obobenocetops pod, Allen and Rebecca wanted to find out how Megalodon juveniles hunted their prey. Team members creates a dummy of an Odobenocetops so they can use it as a decoy to the young sharks. After 15 minutes of pulling the Odobenocetops dummy through the water, a juvenile Megalodon bites the bottom of the dummy and pulled back on to the boat. Allen realizes that Megalodon has the same hunting techniques as a Great White Shark as he saw the damage from the dummy. The team heads out to sea to rescue a full grown Megalodon as they rescue a pod of whales called Cetotherium which was one of the prey items for adult Megalodon.

As they stop the boat and drops the anchor, team members cuts up chum and put them into bucket which they use to dump into the ocean to get the Megalodon's attention. They even use a huge bag of chum which would keep the shark enticed so they can rescue it and bring back to the park. After a few hours and dumping fish chunks into the sea, one of the team members spots something swimming which causing Allen's dog Caine to whimper a bit. Allen knows that it's an adult Megalodon as he and Rebecca puts their scuba suits on while the team gets the cage into the water along with the chum bag. A large female Megalodon appears and tries to reach for the bag as team members try to reel it out of the water then back again.

Allen and Rebecca gets back on to the boat and opens the portal as they keep Megalodon around it. Once they came through the female Megalodon, the large shark swallows the whole chum bags before being put into her enclosure where she was eventually named Meg. Back at the Tyrannosaur enclosure staff members finish building the wall to separate Matilda and her brother Terrence. Matilda still lunges at Terrence by the wall protects her brother from her attacks and becomes more hostile as park staff feeds them and their mother Sue.

## Animals

* *Cetotherium*
* *Megalodon*
* *Odobenocetops*