The Secret History of Sharks with John Long
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Thu 8 May
6-8pm
Location
State Library Theatre - Ground Floor
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On Thursday 8 May 2025, join author and paleontologist John Long for a talk about his latest book 'The Secret History of Sharks – The Rise of the Ocean’s Most Fearsome Predator'.
From ancient megalodons to fearsome Great Whites, he will give an overview about his book which tells the complete, untold story of how sharks emerged as Earth's ultimate survivors.
Sharks have been fighting for their lives for 500 million years and today are under dire threat. They are the longest-surviving vertebrate on Earth, outlasting multiple mass extinction events that decimated life on the planet. But how did they thrive for so long?
Books will be available for purchase at the event.
Biography
John Long is the strategic professor of paleontology at Flinders University, one of Australia’s largest paleontological research groups. The former vice president of research and collections at the Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, some 25 books and over 150 popular science articles. His groundbreaking research work on the evolution of fishes and the origins of sex has appeared in the magazines Nature, Science, and Scientific American.
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