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Miami Science Museum opens two shark exhibits

Think sharks nowadays are big and scary? Take a trip back in time to the Miami Science Museum to see the largest and most dominant marine predator of its time.
Megalodon: The Largest Shark That Ever Lived!, the museum's latest exhibit featuring the 60-foot-long prehistoric shark, showcases a 60-foot-long walk-through sculpture and more than 10 modules that detail the biology and evolution of this giant shark.
Compare shark fossils and modern shark specimens, and take a close look at the hundreds of species that exist today, and learn how to conserve these species in the future.
Visitors can enter a full-size sculpture of Megalodon through massive jaws and discover this shark's history, the world it lived in, its size, structure, diet, lifespan, relatives, neighbors, and its evolution and extinction.
The exhibit will be on display through September.
To go along with Megalodon, the museum is also exhibiting Sharkabet: A Sea of Sharks from A to Z, which presents the world of sharks from A to Z through the artistic interpretation of artist Ray Troll. This exhibit evolved from Troll's book by the same name.
Troll reveals the anatomy, adaptations and behavior of both living and extinct species of sharks. Each letter of the alphabet represents a species, a characteristic or scientific fact regarding the world of sharks. Each piece is accompanied by a brief description.
The museum is at 3280 S. Miami Ave., Miami. For more information, visit www.miamisci.org.