Meg Mania

The New York Times best-selling author Steve Alten appeared on Fox News on Friday, May 8th, promoting his latest book, MEG: Hell’s Aquarium.

MEG: Hell’s Aquarium is the fourth in Alten’s MEG series, which are all thrillers about the continued survival of Carcharodon megalodon, the 70 foot long, 70,000 pound, supposedly extinct prehistoric cousin of the extant great white shark.

Steve Alten is promoting this book throughout the summer of 2009, aided by the largest Megalodon shark jaw in existence (shown above). It is a rather remarkable way to get publicity, after all. Members of the media and the general public are more easily able to visualize the enormous size of this shark with Alten’s exhibit “A,” you must admit!

Hey, the International Cryptozoology Museum would love to have a Meg mandible of its own for exhibition, but pure institutional survival is the key, first and foremost.

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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