It sounds like something from a very popular dinosaur theme park film series, but the idea of a prehistoric shark still swimming the seas today is one that has popped up every now and then in recent history.
As recently as 2013, a film – promoted as being a documentary – suggested an animal known as the megalodon could still be alive...
Is it?
Dan and Ciaran find out.
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